Talk:1168: tar - Revision history

74.124.170.150: tar t is valid

2025-10-26T22:34:50Z

tar t is valid

81.179.195.93 at 18:47, 3 October 2025

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81.179.195.93 at 18:46, 3 October 2025

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193.207.173.203 at 15:17, 3 October 2025

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Bb777 at 02:01, 9 March 2025

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172.70.127.44: added comment

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added comment

JohnHawkinson: belated note on shell escapes to ?

2022-04-07T19:29:00Z

belated note on shell escapes to ?

The Cat Lady at 23:18, 22 September 2021

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172.68.54.166 at 19:55, 14 April 2020

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172.68.133.30 at 02:57, 30 July 2017

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 :(That would also be a command that is valid in every known tar version throughout the universe.)
 : Doesn't appear to work; console redirection is used as the input stream, terminated by Ctrl-D, at which point (on Android, and assuming you don't know the format) tar returns with "invalid tar magic" and then $? is non-zero (fail). If however you redirect 2>/dev/null, then $? returns 0 (success). I think the redirection is what's succeeding so any valid prestidigitation ought to work. [[User:Elvenivle|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle|talk]])
 The tar command actually has a unique syntax in unix.  Classicly, it's first parameter is a subcommand (letter) followed by zero or more option letters.  (And I think the subcommand had to be first.)  Parameters for the options follow in sequence after that, in the same order the options where listed.  Then, for the 'c' subcommand, an input filename list follows.  This syntax was rather painful when you had perhaps 5 different option letters each with parameters, but this was a normal enough occurance when you specified the tape drive, tape block size, tape length, and a few others I can't even remember.  Early implementations would have a file listing tape configurations so you could pick one and all its parameters with a single digit.  In any case, it should be noted that a dash ('-') was actually NOT ALLOWED on the parameters.  More recent versions of tar have attempted to add the more common unix option parsing, but still support the dash-less form.  Having said all that, I tend to prefer "tar xvzf filename.tar.gz" and "tar tvzf filename.tar.gz".  [[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 20:18, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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	Is the real name of Cueball "Rob"? I've seen that name various times in later comics.--[[Special:Contributions/193.207.173.203\|193.207.173.203]] 15:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)		Is the real name of Cueball "Rob"? I've seen that name various times in later comics.--[[Special:Contributions/193.207.173.203\|193.207.173.203]] 15:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
−	:[[Rob]] is ''a'' [[Cueball]]. Not all Cueballs are Rob. There can also be Rob and ''other'' Cueballs. In general, if any is identifiable as Rob (e.g. addressed as such, or someone using the username 'robm') they're a Rob. Others might be someone else, e.g. a [[809: Los Alamos\|Steve]], but mostly it's 'anonymous Cueball', with 'Rob' being the main exception. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.195.93\|81.179.195.93]] 18:46, 3 October 2025 (UTC)	+	:[[Rob]] is ''a'' [[Cueball]]. Not all Cueballs are Rob. There can also be Rob and ''other'' Cueballs featuring in the very same comic. In general, if any is identifiable as Rob (e.g. addressed as such, or someone using the username 'robm') they're a Rob, but most are Cueball. Others might be someone else, e.g. a [[809: Los Alamos\|Steve]], but mostly it's 'anonymous Cueball', with 'Rob' being the main exception. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.195.93\|81.179.195.93]] 18:46, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

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	Is the real name of Cueball "Rob"? I've seen that name various times in later comics.--[[Special:Contributions/193.207.173.203\|193.207.173.203]] 15:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)		Is the real name of Cueball "Rob"? I've seen that name various times in later comics.--[[Special:Contributions/193.207.173.203\|193.207.173.203]] 15:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
		+	:[[Rob]] is ''a'' [[Cueball]]. Not all Cueballs are Rob. There can also be Rob and ''other'' Cueballs. In general, if any is identifiable as Rob (e.g. addressed as such, or someone using the username 'robm') they're a Rob. Others might be someone else, e.g. a [[809: Los Alamos\|Steve]], but mostly it's 'anonymous Cueball', with 'Rob' being the main exception. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.195.93\|81.179.195.93]] 18:46, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

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	`tar -xf *.tar` --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.44\|172.70.127.44]] 13:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)		`tar -xf *.tar` --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.44\|172.70.127.44]] 13:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Is the real name of Cueball "Rob"? I've seen that name various times in later comics.--[[Special:Contributions/193.207.173.203\|193.207.173.203]] 15:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

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 I thought the title text would be "tar --help"
 [[Special:Contributions/123.202.19.132|123.202.19.132]] 06:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 Is it good that I could have disarmed the bomb, and I have only used tar (or for that matter, Linux) sparsely? [[User:NSDCars5|NSDCars5]] ([[User talk:NSDCars5|talk]]) 12:16, 9 May 2014 (UTC)NSDCars5

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	I laughed so hard at this comic I woke up the whole house! [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 23:18, 22 September 2021 (UTC)		I laughed so hard at this comic I woke up the whole house! [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 23:18, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
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		+	`tar -xf *.tar` --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.44\|172.70.127.44]] 13:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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 : Will '''tar -?''' be valid everywhere?. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 :: No, in very old implementations of tar (pre-POSIX), the hyphen is not permitted before flags. I believe that '''tar ?''' will be though. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.166|172.68.54.166]] 19:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 tar -lvvb archive.tar.bz

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	It would be cool if someone made this (without the bomb) in real life. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.30\|172.68.133.30]] 02:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)		It would be cool if someone made this (without the bomb) in real life. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.30\|172.68.133.30]] 02:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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		+	I laughed so hard at this comic I woke up the whole house! [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 23:18, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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	I think the fact that there's a page and a half of comments arguing about what would be an 'obvious' solution shows how difficult a question this is... --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.226\|108.162.237.226]] 08:44, 24 January 2017 (UTC)		I think the fact that there's a page and a half of comments arguing about what would be an 'obvious' solution shows how difficult a question this is... --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.226\|108.162.237.226]] 08:44, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
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		+	It would be cool if someone made this (without the bomb) in real life. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.30\|172.68.133.30]] 02:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)