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by kleff
3141 days ago
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I've just never understood why tar can't have sane defaults like zip. Why do you need three or four cryptic arguments to do the most basic use case? Its like find. I try to remember the stupid syntax and just give up and use locate instead. |
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Because tar means "tape archiver", and back when it was created, most of the time, you only needed one option: c, t or x (create, test, extract). You didn't need to pass f (file) because you actually piped tar to something that would append to a tape device (or read from it). And back then, compression (z, j, J, a) wasn't common place for tapes.