Eh? ‘tar xvf foo.tar.gz’ is “technically” 2 steps I guess, but that’s pretty well hidden from the user.
It’s like when .zip was popular I guess?
Tar.gz is a two step thingy too (maybe under the hood 7z is too) so the extraction process always seems long?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
nulluser@programming.dev 8 months ago
Pro tip: Tar knows what to do if you try to untar a tar.gz file. It Just Works™.
lmaydev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So do zip files lol
barsoap@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes but can winzip do tape backups.
nix@merv.news 8 months ago
What do you use tape backups for?
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
Yeah I know, and it’s only useful rarely as if you can extract directly to the target, you don’t need to have an intermediate copy (or do intermediate copying). Really nitpicking ofc.