Gzipped Tarball Exclusive ✰ <SAFE>

Now go forth and tar -xzf something. 🐧 Would you like a follow-up post about or building your own tar-like archiver in Python ?

The flags stick like glue: reate, e x tract, z (gzip), f ile. 🎁 Final Thought The next time you curl a .tar.gz of some GitHub repo, think of the 1970s tape drives, the 1990s compression wars, and the stubborn Unix philosophy of “do one thing well.” gzipped tarball

# Create tar -czf archive.tar.gz folder/ tar -xzf archive.tar.gz Now go forth and tar -xzf something

But gzip cannot pack multiple files. Give it a directory, and it says: “No, thanks.” e x tract