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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by corpMaverick on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:28PM (#24522874)
Exactly, these are the only ones I know and never get confused. Actually I use cvzf and xvzf.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by stjohnswarts on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:06AM (#24524945)
you might want to at -p for preserving permissions in there are well, handy for archiving
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