Shaun McCance

@shaunix.bsky.social

CentOS community architect. GNOME old fart. Cincinnati beer lover. Accidental runner.

Command line level up. Today I was annoyed at having to remember which -z/-Z/-j/-J/etc option to pass to tar. I thought, shouldn't this just be automatic? I checked the man page. Guess what? It is! You don't have to pass a compression argument to tar. Just `tar -xf FILENAME`.