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I was going to ask what is wrong with the man page (because in my experience they do a mighty fine job of explaining most traditional unix tools). But then I c
by clarry 13y ago
I was going to ask what is wrong with the man page (because in my experience they do a mighty fine job of explaining most traditional unix tools). But then I checked the manuals for two variants of tar (gnu and obsd), and I can see how they might appear less than helpful for a new user who has never dealt with gzip before.
I am surprised the xz(v)f invocation isn't in the examples. I could've sworn it's there...
- rtpg 13y agoI almost always try info instead of man because that's where I'll find common use cases of tools (when the info page exists). man is obviously useful when you want to know what one switch does, but there are a lot of tools that could use an introductory "how to use"