Comment by bigstrat2003

Comment by bigstrat2003 a day ago

The problem is it's very non-obvious and thus is unnecessarily hard to learn. Yes, once you learn the incantations they will serve you forever. But sit a newbie down in front of a shell and ask them to extract a file, and they struggle because the interface is unnecessarily hard to learn.

encom a day ago

It's very similar to every other CLI program, I really don't understand what kind of usability issue you're implying is unique to tar?

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mrguyorama a day ago

As has been clearly demonstrated in this very thread, why is "Please list what files are in this archive" the option "-t"?
Principle of least surprise and all that.

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- encom a day ago
  
  And why is -v the short option for --invert-match in grep, when that's usually --verbose or --version in lots of other places. These idiosyncrasies are hardly unique to tar.
  
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