[DangitBobby]

I need to be familiar with those options about once every year or so, practically guaranteeing that I will forget by the next time I need it. With .zip, there's nothing to remember. I wish tar were capable of detecting what flags you need based on file extensions or contents.

[netsharc]

I once had copious amounts of free time and tried Linux from Scratch. I typed "tar -xzf" so many times (who needs verbosity), now it's burned into my brain.