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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by niftich on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:01PM (#12294172)
I have no idea because I memorized 'tar zxvf' a long time ago [1] and I have to google everything else.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1597/

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by skoczymroczny on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @10:13AM (#12297560)
I thought you'd post this one https://xkcd.com/1168/
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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by vacri on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:46AM (#12295761)
These days tar autodetects zipfiles, and you don't usually need to see the files as they come out, so you can do 'tar xf' instead...
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