Tradional Usage
  tar {A|c|d|r|t|u|x}[GnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo] [ARG...]

It is invigorating.

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[–] 15 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I saw tar -xvf 13 years ago and have been using it ever since.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Same. And if it's compressed you just add the appropriate shorthand in the letter soup somewhere in the middle:
    z for gzip j for bzip (for some reason)
    ..and I'm sure the other common algorithms have associated letters in tar. If not, pipe it

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