Programmer Humor

38973 readers

505 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

cat_programmer@lemmy.ml

754

tar -vczfx123 ought to do it (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 2 years ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

94 comments fedilink hide all child comments

source

img title="I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

tar xvf somearchive.tar

Is that right? )= I'm scared I lost.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

user@server:~> tar xvf somearchive.tar

tar: somearchive.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Scheiße...

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Yep that's valid.