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by jakswa 706 days ago
> In 2024, everyone looking for a code editor knows how to extract a tar.gz right?

I'll raise my hand and say I still get the `tar` terminal command options confused and have to pause and figure out the file format I'm dealing with and the options. So, no, I usually don't know, and have to look it up in the manpage/help. "Was it -xvfz for this one? Shit I just did this recently..."

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You don't even need a terminal if you can't remember the options. Extracting an archive is done by any half decent file manager.