I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent fi

I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"