[OT] tar command

[Mac]

tar has been around for as long as *ux.

So it's had plenty of time to mature.

As with many of the vintage *ux cammand line utilities it can be cryptic
and not necessarily intuitive to use.

Mac 

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:44 +0200, Ralf wrote:
> Does anybody know something about tar?
> 
> Very interesting, I deleted a broken Maverick-Natty-Upgrade-Install by
> # rm -r *, then I copied a backup archive and restored Maverick from the
> backup by tar xzf *, restoring Maverick takes between 3 and 4 minutes
> only.
> 
> How is this possible?
> 
> The restored Maverick seems to be ok, at least Email etc. is ok, the
> size, 6.76 GiB is correct.
> 
> An amazing voodoo trick.
> 
> I didn't know that it's that fast.
> 
>