LainTrainOld XKCD, still relevant
m4I just can recall
tar xvzf but can't even remember what it's supposed to do.
eXtract, Verbose, gZip, File.
Not sure why it doesn’t need the dash though.
The dash used to be how to could tell how long someone had been using tar. If they started with Linux, they probably use a dash. If they started on a UNIX variant, they probably don’t. Either way, the dash isn’t needed.
Also recently learned that recent versions of tar will autodetect compression. So for extraction, you just need “tar xf “
Sacrilege.