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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by reedlaw on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:55PM (#10201447)
"tar xvzf" is already a part of my muscle memory. Occasionally I need to change the "z" to a "j" for bzip2 archives. And the "x" becomes a "c" if I'm Creating an archive rather than eXtracting.

Also this site doesn't show the command for files with ".tgz" extensions.

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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by JoshTriplett on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:57PM (#10201450)
> tar xvzf" is already a part of my muscle memory. Occasionally I need to change the "z" to a "j" for bzip2 archives

With modern tar, just don't include the z at all. "tar -xf" knows how to extract various kinds of compressed tar files automatically.

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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by monksy on Thursday September 10, 2015 @09:06PM (#10201469)
Today I learned. I've been doing zxvf for quite a while and I always got annoyed with bz2 files.
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