Reduce the number of key strokes to execute this command: tar –t –v –f /dev/fd0?

Answer 1

You could even shrink it more by doing:

tar -tf

the -v specifies verbose information. 99% of the time you don't care about that info.

And incase you don't know, -t doesn't really do anything, just displays the contents of the file specified with the -f.

if you want to extract it, you'll need to do -x

Answer 2

nicely in the initiating you could do in basic terms tar -tvf /dev/fdo, which will kill 2 key hits for you. you could also cd into the /dev listing first and then do in basic terms tar -tvf fdo. in case you employ this command alot you could continuously make a script which will run this command for you. in case you employ it daily, weekly, or month-to-month you could continuously make it a crond report, so it is going to do it for you. once you've questions about the thanks to attempt this you could contact my yahoo e mail. that's my person call.

Answer 3

In unix, you can combine the options in one string.

tar -tvf /dev/fd0
does exactly the same thing.

Answer 4

tar -tvf /dev/fd0

Answer 5

tar -tvf /dev/fd0