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alias ls=exit

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You are the evil

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Nah, that’s just chaotic. Evil would be

export EDITOR=rm

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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !linuxhumor@lemmy.ml

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tar -xzf (eXtract Ze File)

tar -czf (Compress Ze File)

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Mmmnnn z means (de)compress, c means create: -xf and -cf extract and create uncompressed tarballs. Also it’s far more complicated.

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I’m sorry!

boom

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Tangentially related. I’m being confusing for educational purposes, tar is impossible even if you know it.

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For newbies that know from the top of their head what a cd-rom is…

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Fair point. You can probably be 20 these days and not have really used CDs in your memory. Is this what getting old feels like?

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Speaking as someone that grew up with records, 8-tracks, and cassettes: yes, yes it is.

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In Vim:

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