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  • Russ@bitforged.space
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    4 months ago

    There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time

    That would be -t, which I tend to remember as “test”, as in testing to see what is inside the archive!

    tealdeer is a great program to have installed for easily getting a breakdown of the flags of pretty much any CLI app that at least I can ever think of!