E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the current directory [v]erbosely

Archiving utility.
Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2.
More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar>.
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tar xvf {{source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}}

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