img title="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."
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A little trick I learned on here was to imagine yourself as a little evil man saying "Extract ze files!" in a German accent. Extract ze files >>> xzf.
That sounds a lot like Czech, "ze" means "from" if you translate it into English
Looks, not sounds. Ahoj!
I still use that. 😅