---
title: "tar -zcvf 2025.tar.gz ~/2025"
description: "A New Year’s LinkedIn post turns shell flags into seasonal hacker aesthetics. The command is less impressive if somebody asks what it does."
author: "Pau Friedman"
kind: "link"
published_at: "2025-12-31"
url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2025/12/31/tar-2025"
markdown_url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2025/12/31/tar-2025.md"
canonical_url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2025/12/31/tar-2025"
external_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caseyjohnellis_tar-zcvf-2025targz-2025-rm-rf-2025-activity-7412336693514534912-aMM_"
---

# [tar \-zcvf 2025\.tar\.gz \~\/2025](<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caseyjohnellis_tar-zcvf-2025targz-2025-rm-rf-2025-activity-7412336693514534912-aMM_>)

> `tar -zcvf 2025.tar.gz ~/2025`

Nothing says expertise like turning command-line flags into seasonal LinkedIn copy. `zcvf` is not an
incantation: compress, create, verbose, file—although the canonical mnemonic is “compress zee
files.”

The hacker aesthetic works best when nobody asks what the command does.