Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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    6 months ago

    I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics–zip and unzip–and that has made it easy for me. But I’ve been stuck on those.

    Extract anything:

    tar xf <archive_file>
    

    Create a tbz2 archive:

    tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>
    

    (And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that’s your thing.)

    Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I’ll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

    Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It’s just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That’s easy enough to remember, I guess.