[ph4evers]

Except for tar. But there I use the mnemonic “xtrackt ze files”

[contravariant]

That may work, but I can never for the life of me remember what on earth each flag was for.

Doesn't help that '-a' basically means 'all the flags', meaning you have to know them all to figure out what on earth it's doing. Or just hope it is enough.

[Izkata]

For tar, I have memorized: x, c, z, j, v, f

The trick with tar that people seem to have issues with is the ordering with "f" - since it takes an argument, if you're using the combined short form it has to be last with the filename immediately following.

[Einenlum]

Since a few years I only use dtrx. https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/ I never have to learn this kind of stuff anymore.

[3np]

Neat. Now do rsync.

[actionfromafar]

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