admin_hub

sysop@hub:~/tools/command-builder$

command-builder

Four commands everybody uses and nobody remembers the switches of. Tick what you want, read what each switch does, copy the line. The page warns you before a command deletes something.

your command

what each part does

The page builds text, it does not run anything and cannot see your files. Test a new command on a folder that does not matter, and use the dry run where there is one. Switches follow GNU tar, GNU find and rsync 3; the versions that ship with macOS and BusyBox lack a few of them.

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