Reordered, and we can have [v]erbosely e[x]tract g[z]ip [f]ile, or tar vxzf [file]
I find it more difficult to remember other options. Might stick better if pronouncing the g in gzip similarly as GNU insists GNU be pronounced, with a hard g—never really tried it, but sounds a little funny. Actually, I think I first remembered it as g sounding like the, making for extract the zip file, but with a soft g; I felt the former put too much emphasis on a letter not used as an option.
Again this old myth that using
taris possible without looking up commands every time. It’s been debunked many timeseXtract Ze File
xzvf or nothing
but how am i supposed to remember that?
eXtract Ze Vucking File?
e[x]tract; g[z]ip; [v]erbose; [f]ile
Reordered, and we can have [v]erbosely e[x]tract g[z]ip [f]ile, or
tar vxzf [file]I find it more difficult to remember other options. Might stick better if pronouncing the g in
gzipsimilarly as GNU insists GNU be pronounced, with a hard g—never really tried it, but sounds a little funny. Actually, I think I first remembered it as g sounding like the, making for extract the zip file, but with a soft g; I felt the former put too much emphasis on a letter not used as an option.Ja mein freund.