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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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