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985 points gyan | 3 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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pmarreck ◴[22 Aug 25 15:35 UTC] No.44985875[source]▶
Impressed anytime I have to use it (even if I have to study its man page again or use an LLM to construct the right incantation or use a GUI that just builds the incantation based on visual options). Becoming an indispensable transcoding multitool.

I think building some processing off of Vulkan 1.3 was the right move. (Aside, I also just noticed yesterday that Asahi Linux on Mac supports that standard as well.)

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Culonavirus ◴[22 Aug 25 15:39 UTC] No.44985906[source]▶
> incantation

FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

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jeanlucas ◴[22 Aug 25 15:44 UTC] No.44985984[source]▶
nope, that would be handling tar balls

ffmpeg right after

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1. beala ◴[22 Aug 25 16:41 UTC] No.44986660[source]▶
Tough crowd.

fwiw, `tar xzf foobar.tgz` = "_x_tract _z_e _f_iles!" has been burned into my brain. It's "extract the files" spoken in a Dr. Strangelove German accent

Better still, I recently discovered `dtrx` (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx) and it's great if you have the ability to install it on the host. It calls the right commands and also always extracts into a subdir, so no more tar-bombs.

If you want to create a tar, I'm sorry but you're on your own.

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2. diggan ◴[22 Aug 25 17:27 UTC] No.44987223[source]▶
I used tar/unzip for decades I think, before moving to 7z which handles all formats I throw at it, and have the same switch for when you want to decompress into a specific directory, instead of having to remember which one of tar and unzip uses -d, and which one uses -C.

"also always extracts into a subdir" sounds like a nice feature though, thanks for sharing another alternative!

3. mkl ◴[22 Aug 25 23:10 UTC] No.44991047[source]▶
> tar xzf foobar.tgz

You don't need the z, as xf will detect which compression was used, if any.

Creating is no harder, just use c for create instead, and specify z for gzip compression:

  tar czf archive.tar.gz [filename(s)]
Same with listing contents, with t for tell:

  tar tf archive.tar.gz