The fact that this thread contains, like, TONS of invalid invocations that people have been editing for correctness is fucking hilarious.

Also, QED 🤠

I memorized tar -cavf file.tar.bz2 directory/* and tar -xavf file.tar.bz2

I always remember that it's eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf... But I'll be honest, I've not used it in years and years

tar --extract --file file.tar.gz

cpio is way worse

Anyone else make an untar.sh?

All those years of using nautilus have made me weak

Now do a standard pax command.

Tar -xvf