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Tar

• joshfraser 14y ago
  so true
• speeder 14y ago
  I wonder: Why this was never improved? Also, good to know I am not the only guy that never manages to type this correctly.
  • pseut 14y ago
    What would be an improvement? I type tar from the command line so infrequently that I don't think anything would be particularly easy to remember. Spending the 5 minutes to get it right in a script isn't a big deal. tar --help is surprisingly nice.
    • saurik 14y ago
      One improvement would be to have it autodetect the compression type, so you don't have to remember -z, -Z, -J, or the other one I always forget. However, and here is where I feel the premise of this comic is dissappointing: tar now does this. I mean, maybe he's on a Mac, and thereby his command line tools probably lose more functionality over time than they gain (such as when they switched from GNU grep to BSD grep recently, as part of their ongoing Great GPL Purge), but as a user of GNU tar I was pleasantly surprised when they made this change.
    • pasbesoin 14y ago
      Perhaps ironically, in Ubuntu 12.04, the man page for tar does not list --help as an option. ;-)
• splawn 14y ago
  but isn't "xzvf" as easy to remember as "xkcd"? =P
  • dimitar 14y ago
    Extract zip verbosely from file? The order is important and not very intuitive in most languages :-)