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For tar, I just remember tar czvf and tar xzvf.

Of course, then we get the question, ok, why not use a program that just provides those options? But, I think all the extra functionality of tar is nice to have sitting off there in the background; I’d have to look it up if I actually wanted to use it, but it is all there in the documentation, and nicely compatible with the files produced by my memorized commands.



Fully laden Gnu tar or BSD tar?


I guess GNU most likely. On my system, it’s just Ubuntu, and on the server side, it is, I guess, whatever the administrator installed, haha.


Both commands work in either I believe. I've been using both since my FreeBSD days and now I use Debian Linux with no change.


Reminded of this xkcd :P https://xkcd.com/1168/




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