tar zxvf! For tar.gz. Never, ever understood why the tar command can&#x27;t just read the extension and determine the required long list of options needed for successful extraction. Whether I can remember tar xvjpf (for tar.bz2 files) depends on many things, not sure which. To be honest, I like it when I hit a .zip, I can just type &quot;unzip x&quot;...<p>Nice xkcd :)