One thing I hate about a lot of programmers is that they have a bad habit of making things non-intuitive. Like you said with the letter "j". Why on earth would you use a letter that most likely has no correlation to what we're working with ? Same thing with the -t option with the tar command. -l isn't being occupied by another option so why not use -l when the full name of the option is called --list
Can you use the tar command with the z or b flag (ie: tar cvz filename.tar.gz) without having to first compress the the file in question. For instance, say I didn't compress file1 with gzip, can I jump that step and then use tar to archive AND compress as long as I add the right flag (z or j) and extension .gz or .bz2 , or is that step mandatory.
Fantastic steps, thanks once again!
thank you
One thing I hate about a lot of programmers is that they have a bad habit of making things non-intuitive. Like you said with the letter "j". Why on earth would you use a letter that most likely has no correlation to what we're working with ? Same thing with the -t option with the tar command. -l isn't being occupied by another option so why not use -l when the full name of the option is called --list
It's so true. Definitely one of my pet hate. Shame there isn't any standardisation anywhere..
Watching these videos now, using RHEL 9.1 and star has been removed and can't be added. What is being used instead?
Can you use the tar command with the z or b flag (ie: tar cvz filename.tar.gz) without having to first compress the the file in question.
For instance, say I didn't compress file1 with gzip, can I jump that step and then use tar to archive AND compress as long as I add the right flag (z or j) and extension .gz or .bz2 , or is that step mandatory.
Absolutely 👍
tar does not compress the file. It creates archive.
tar is commonly used to backup or compress files. Its also used to transfer files and folders