> Can you tell me what all the flags of `tar -xvzf` Yes.

x: extract

v: verbose

z: zip (or unzip) archive

f: file name to follow.

> Do you think you would ever discover that combination on your own from reading the man pages?

Yes. Turns out, I wanted to tar up my nodejs directory, but omit the `node_modules` folder.

> Of course the command line makes many things easier.

Exactly. I'm not a high level computer scientist, but I imagine, being able to easily deal with files and data would help things out quite a bit. So there while it can be painful to learn bash, it's something that pays off heaps in the long run. My opinion.