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I know this is a meme, but I actually find
tar
fairly easy to remember.tar -xf $archive
is extract filetar -czf $archive dir/
is create zipped (compressed) file and the positional arguments are the files to add to the archive.And this is 99% of my usage. You can skip
-f $archive
to use stdin/stdout or use-C
to change directory (weird name but logically tar always extracts to the current directory). There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time, but I list much less often.-v
is useful for verbose.Overall there are much harder commands to remember.
find
always gets me if I go beyond-name
.ps
,tree
andls
(beyond-Al
) always get me to open the man page.That would be
-t
, which I tend to remember as "test", as in testing to see what is inside the archive!tealdeer is a great program to have installed for easily getting a breakdown of the flags of pretty much any CLI app that at least I can ever think of!