Tag: gnu

Mac OS X ‘ls’ vs GNU ‘ls’

December 20, 2011December 20, 2011ambsLeave a Comment

There are a few details that can change completely you decision when to use one version of a command or another. Mac OS X ‘ls’ command is one of those you do not want, and you are desperate to install GNU version of ‘ls’. Check the differences (below ‘gls’ is the GNU version of ‘ls’). […]

unix

tar guessing compression method

September 19, 2009September 19, 2009ambs1 Comment

Finally (not sure how long ago, but I just found out about it three days ago) the tar unix utility (gnu version) can guess what the compression method to use. Now I can forget that -j is used for bzip2, -z is used for gzip, and some other for xz. Just use ‘tar axf’ for […]