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this is from this post on !linuxhumor@lemmy.ml

You can find an explanation there if you are confused or learning

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[–] boblemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TickleMeElmo@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's just chaotic. Evil would be

export EDITOR=rm

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

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Joe_0237@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] matricaria@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

tar -xzf (eXtract Ze File)

tar -czf (Compress Ze File)

[–] eyvind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] matricaria@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry!

boom

[–] Joe_0237@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

It's also helpful to note that “shell builtins” don't typically have man pages (at least for BASH). You can find help on these commands by typing [builtin name] --help or looking in the shell's man page or info doc (no one told me when I was learning, so I got confused as to why some of the more common commands didn't have man pages)

[–] matricaria@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

In Vim:

:Sex

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Once when I was drunk it took me 5min to realise, that a cd rom is in fact a read only file system

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Change Directory -> Read Only Media

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this mean that a cd-rw is not in fact a CD rom?

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago