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Xctract zee file
xzf
-xf is all you need
Also most file managers handle it easily
I don't understand.
How is it hard to remember: "eXtract File" = "tar xf ..."? If tar is gZipped - it's "tar xzf ...".
I don't think I've ever seen tarball that wouldn't work with one of these two commands.
Never encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is
j
.Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...
usually just worksYeah it's many years that I haven't had to specify z, j etc.
Just use
tar xaf
to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)eXtract Zi Files - xzf