#mindhacks 😎

Yeah, like why not learn new language just to remember three freaking letters.

YES! Finally a way to remember!

Thank you!

@coolq sharing what I bumped into and appreciated😉

lol good way to remember them

Cool

With latest tar versions, you can actually do

tar xf <filename>

And it'll work out the decompression method by file extension for you.

@kenogo eXtract Jour Files

-x extract
-c compress
-z gzip
-j bzip
-v verbose
-f file

Thats how I remember it 😓

But when you don't use gzip

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is one of the use cases that 'alias' was invented for.

Or you could be a real su and just know how to use tar

Dude, thank you. I wish I had more than one upvote to give you

@azous bzip being a j flag is self documenting. Don't know why people have so much trouble. Lol

bdsm! I mean tysm!

How I learned it

@BlasterJoni wow. I fucking love it.

You're a life saver

How I remember it:

man tar

Omg this is actually really helpful

How is that not obvious?

-j is xz
-z s gzip

-c is create archive
-x is xtract te archive

That's how this stuff works

With my experience in the terminals, I've learnt to use the long options and make a sentence / story out of it for all the commands that I use.

tar --create (a) --gzip (archive with) --file <archive-name.tar.gz> (using the files) files/*

ls (with) --human -lt (those 2 don't have long options) (in) --reverse

sort (in) --human (form)

du (in) --human (form with) --max-depth 1

I've always struggled with the find command (which is probably also where this storyfication of commands originated)

find (files in) <directory> (with the) -name '<*whatever-name*>' (in a) -maxdepth (of) 1 (that has) -perm /<permission-mode> (that is an) -executable (which is) -newer (than) <some-file> (and is owned by the) -user <username> (and then) -delete (it).

To end that beautiful story, I sometimes combine it with the stories I mentioned above too with -exec flag.

PS : most of this doesn't work out of the linux environment (I'm looking at you BSD and macOS)