Re: [PLUG] Suicide linux

["Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>]

Nice.  Check these one out.  Anyone still using tar for its intended
purpose, you know, Tape ARchives?

# tar cMvlpfV /dev/st0 DATA1 /data1
# tar dMvlpf /dev/st0 /data1
# tar xMvlpf /dev/st0 /data1/restore


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:55:10AM -0400, Tim Allen wrote:
> Or in the olden days:
> 
> gunzip -c filename.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>wrote:
> 
> > xzvf
> > czvf
> > xjvf
> > cjvf
> >
> > Do I win?
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:32:25AM -0400, Chad Waters wrote:
> > > This reminds me of one of my favorite XKCD comics:
> > >
> > > http://xkcd.com/1168/

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