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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by stinos on Monday October 26, 2015 @08:12AM (#10450828)
wget <filename>

more like

    wget <filename>

    <some hard to remember command with like 4 flags to unpack,
     plus hope it ends up in a subdirectory and does not put all files in this dir>
     <filename>
until you've done it enough times to remember it. Learning curve indeed.
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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by juliangoldsmith on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:56AM (#10451412)
You can generally replace

    <some hard to remember command with like 4 flags to unpack,
     plus hope it ends up in a subdirectory and does not put all files in this dir>
with

    tar -xf <filename>
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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by err4nt on Monday October 26, 2015 @10:59AM (#10451869) 

    -x means extract

    -f means force
and my favorite to put in there is:

    -v for verbose
This shows you all of the files being processed, sometimes it can be really helpful to see. Try:

    tar -xvf <filename>
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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by mabo on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:01PM (#10452692)
Actually, -f makes tar read from a file instead of stdin.
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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by err4nt on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:36PM (#10453418)
indeed http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=tar+-xvf
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