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Tar

$ tar  -xvf archive.tar

or

$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

  • -[x | c] : extract | create archive

  • v: The “v” stands for “verbose.” This option will list all of the files one by one in the archive.

  • z: The z option is very important and tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip).

  • f: This options tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with.

Zsh functions

After M-x you can input zsh functions _expand_alias - you can expand aliases...

Dotfile Control

Using the bare repository method outlined here

For use, you can be in any directory and just use config as you normally would.

config add .FILENAME

Shell Parameter Expansion

Recipes

  • % matches end
  • %%*. for file type, greedy till end
  • # matches beginning

wget

wget -r -np -l 1 -A zip http://example.com/download/

-r,  --recursive          specify recursive download.
-np, --no-parent          don't ascend to the parent directory.
-l,  --level=NUMBER       maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite).
-A,  --accept=LIST        comma-separated list of accepted extensions.