How do you unarchive with TAR?

[John Macdonald]

In article <6277 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s887212 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:
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|therefor I recommend:
|tar -xfvo <filename>
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I recommend the same general practice, but I suggest writing it as:

tar -xvfo <filename>
       ^^

The "fo" is an easy way of commenting on the competence of the person
who made the default mechanism to be the choice that cannot be
recovered from.
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