Linux.com: Stuff I Learned This Week

"Using Linux is a continual learning process. A person finds new and interesting ways to use the tools they have at their disposal very often. On my Debian system is 1226 individual commands; my total vocabulary consists of perhaps two hundred of them. There is plenty of room to learn and grow."

"That said, here's a couple neat things I learned this week:"

"Tar doesn't have to be used just for extracting downloaded files; you can also use it to write archives as raw data to a device. For instance, doing a tar cz foo/ > /dev/fd0 will create a gzipped tar file as output; then send the output as raw data to the floppy disk (or tape drive, or hard drive, or whatever). Then, when you want to extract the data: tar zxvf /dev/fd0"

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