It does, I always extract files with: tar xf <file> (as in eXtract File) The xkcd answer could be: tar t I always see people using tar -zxvf <file>, I'm gue

It does, I always extract files with: tar xf <file> (as in eXtract File) The xkcd answer could be: tar t I always see people using tar -zxvf <file>, I'm guessing they tried that and it worked, and they never needed to look in the manpage. I feel that