“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”