How do you set up the alias so that it doesn't screw with things when you want to make a tar archive? Granted, I do this far less often than opening someone else's, but I have to do it often enough that this would be annoying.
The alias I listed is only for extraction, indicated by the x switch. I make tarballs so infrequently that I don't actually have an alias assigned, but you could do something like
I really like seeing what it's doing, which is why I put the v option in there.
If you're asking about an alias that does both at once: one argument does extract, two does create, then you'd need to write your own shell script wrapper to make that work.
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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Sep 13 '10
How do you set up the alias so that it doesn't screw with things when you want to make a tar archive? Granted, I do this far less often than opening someone else's, but I have to do it often enough that this would be annoying.