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Re: by MisterBastahrd on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:21AM (#38086201)
Yeah, that's why I hate shoes. Because people who commit crimes normally wear them.
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Re: by brianwawok on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:23AM (#38086243)
Same but fit me it’s socks

OP: rar is very very common for anything made by a Linux computer.

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Re: by bandyaboot on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:30AM (#38086373)
Are you maybe thinking of tar?
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Re: by OskarS on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:28AM (#38086324)
What? In my experience, RAR is extremely un-Linux. It's not free software and not command-line friendly, and it seems mostly to be used by piracy weirdoes who need to split up files for uploading to newsgroups.

If you're on Linux, you make .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or something. Or .zip, I guess you see sometimes. But RAR? That's a windows people thing, in my experience.

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Re: by mikestew on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:59AM (#38086884)
I wouldn't know what to do with a RAR file on a Linux machine, and I've used Linux for over 20 years (and Unix before that? Don't even ask, youngster.) I mean, yeah, I'd figure it out; but I've not had the need.

As sibling commenters said, you're probably thinking of .tar. Now that I run into a lot. :-)

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Re: by godshatter on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:58PM (#38087901)
unrar x archive-name

I probably installed it many years ago from the repositories. Now that linux gaming is so good I've been seeing 7z and rar being used for game mods a lot.

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