I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.
But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.
tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz
… fixed. Apparently I can’t type.
I think you want to remove the
cbecause that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing azwhich applies gzip decompression/compressionI suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.
But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.
Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.
QED 🫠