[wellylug] Very Simple Command

[Stephen Judd]

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 23:10, Stephen Judd wrote:

> 
> f = read from a file, rather than from stdin.
> x = eXtract the contents
> v = be Verbose so the user can see what's happening. (You can get more
> verbose output by putting an extra v in).
> z = source file is compressed with gzip
> j = source file is compressed with bzip2.

Thinking about it, GNU tar supports verbose options. You could write
"tar zxvf" as "tar --verbose --file --extract --gzip".