Questionably coding, but I always loved this IRC snippet:
<sdmkun> tar -xzf merc.tgz what the fuck
<sdmkun> how the fuck do you people remember this shit
<bucketmouse> just think with a german accent
<bucketmouse> XTRACT ZE FILES
<sdmkun> tar -xzf merc.tgz what the fuck
<sdmkun> how the fuck do you people remember this shit
<bucketmouse> just think with a german accent
<bucketmouse> XTRACT ZE FILES
tar - [create] [verbosely] [a g/bzip'd compressed] [file named] foo.tgz (from) input_dir
tar -cvzf foo.tgz input_dir
Your version doesn't seem as 'fun', I guess zcat and PIPE are just hard to rhyme along to.