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Comment by hacoo | Hacker News Reader

"Unpack test.tar.gz without man pages or google"

Ha, guess I'm not the only one :)

Remember to 'eXtract Ze Files', twirling your moustache while you say that.

Ist just remembered only "xvzf" 20 years ago, not knowing the meaning of each switch back then.

You can actually drop the Z these days in a lot of cases; tar will detect the compression algorithm.

I occasionally log into older GNU, or non-OSX BSD systems where tar can't detect the compression automatically. [1]

[1] this isn't true, I just enjoy saying 'extract Ze Files' in a silly accent

    tar --help   # they didn't rule this out :)