ffmpeg is kind of a special case; the CLI for that is far more complex than almost anything else I've ever seen. tar xf for extract. Add v to show the files. t

ffmpeg is kind of a special case; the CLI for that is far more complex than almost anything else I've ever seen. tar xf for extract. Add v to show the files. tar cf to create. tar tf to "test" (list). Add -C dir at the end to extract to different directory. Set file to "-" for stdin. That's all there's to it for 99% of use cases. I don't get how anyone can have difficulty with that: f for file, and x/c/t are pretty mnemonic.