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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 th
by 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 agoOne 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 agoPerhaps ironically, in Ubuntu 12.04, the man page for tar does not list --help as an option. ;-)