<p dir="ltr">Yeah I didn't relate either. To me tar with files or streams is first nature. Now zip and rar on Unix, that would probably get me blown up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Why can you not unzip streams!?!?<br>
e.g.<br>
curl <a href="http://example.com/file.zip">http://example.com/file.zip</a> -O; unzip file.zip<br>
Versus<br>
curl <a href="http://example.com/file.tar.gz">http://example.com/file.tar.gz</a> | tar zxf -</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2013 4:27 PM, "Scott Plante" <<a href="mailto:splante@insightsys.com">splante@insightsys.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Wolf, I think that would have to be:</span></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">tar xzvf pleasedon\'tthrowmeinthatbriarpatch.tar.gz</span><br>
;-)<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure I get the xkcd joke. Is the implication that tar is hard to use or something? Or most Unix people need to consult Google to correctly type in a tar command? I know it's been a while, but tar was one of the first Unix commands I learned, and I still use it quite frequently. Lots of stuff comes packaged in tar files, at least in the circles I'm in. Sure, more often these days you pull code with git, but tar usage is still very common for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Scott<br><hr><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b>From: </b>"William Bagwell" <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net" target="_blank">rb211@tds.net</a>><br>
<b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, February 3, 2013 5:29:13 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] XKCD<div class="elided-text">
<br><br>On Sunday 03 February 2013, Wolf Halton wrote:<br>> tar xzvf somefile.tar.gz<br>> 3 seconds<br><br>tar xzvf pleasedon'tthrowmeinthatbriarpatch.tar.gz<br><br>Takes a bit longer but proves your an old fart:)<br>
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