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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A little trick I learned on here was to imagine yourself as a little evil man saying "Extract ze files!" in a German accent. Extract ze files >>> xzf.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Only works for tar.gz. Remember there's also tar.xz, tar.bz, tar.bz2 and half have their own extractor flag. FUN. It's usually J.