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  • chellomere@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They meant the command dtrx, the combination of dtrx as parameters to tar make no sense. Extract AND append?

    • Deebster@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      haha, ok thanks. So https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx

      I’d initially assumed that it was a mnemonic but yes, listing and appending and extracting together is nonsensical, as tar notes: tar: You may not specify more than one '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' option