Funny comic on tar commands

[glamdring]

Mouse over text: "I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started"

(xkcd comic #1168: https://xkcd.com/1168/)

[Bald Brick]

That's why we need the man pages! 

[gseaman]

tar -xf
tar -cJvf

The only two that I use. 

Galen

[muungwana]

he should have gone there with a script 

Below is the content of my script that deal with extracting various packages i download online

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#!/bin/bash
arg=$1
if [ "${arg: -7}" == ".tar.gz" ] ; then
        gtar -xvzf $arg 

elif [ "${arg: -8}"  == ".tar.bz2" ] ; then
        tar -xjvf $arg

elif [ "${arg: -3}"  == ".gz" ] ; then
        gunzip -c $arg > "${arg:0:(( ${#arg} - 3))}"

elif [ "${arg: -4}"  == ".rpm" ] ; then
        rpm2cpio $arg | cpio -idmv

elif [ "${arg: -4}"  == ".deb" ] ; then
        ar vx $arg
elif [ "${arg: -4}"  == ".zip" ] ; then
        unzip $arg
elif [ "${arg: -4}"  == ".tar" ] ; then
        tar -xf  $arg
elif [ "${arg: -3}" == ".xz" ] ; then
        xz -dkv $arg
elif [ "${arg: -4}" == ".bz2" ] ; then
        bzip2 -dk $arg
else
        echo "compressed file \"$arg\" has an unrecognized file format"
fi


[glamdring]

I always just installed that package that lets you left click and extract the files in the menu/gui. Shell is fun and when on my server I use it, but at home I don't have the time to do it in the terminal.