Oblig. XKCD:
tar -h
Edit: wtf… It’s actually
tar -?
. I’m so disappointedboom
That’s yet another great joke that GNU ruined.
.tar.xz
Yeah, it’s similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.
wait until you learn about
.tar.lz
Good for image backups, after zeroing empty space.
xz is quite slow though
tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz
Same algo as in 7z
When I’m feeling cool and downloading a
*.tar*
file, I’llwget
to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.I have (successfully!) written an
.iso
to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.Something like
wget avc.com | tar xvf
?Almost, I think.
wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
Didnt think this would ever work
TAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially.
It’s really just like a far away tape drive.
cool people use zst
Where .7z at