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Plaintext tar (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago by avidseeker to c/plaintext

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[–] sramder 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So confused. Wasn’t this what cat was originally intended for?

[–] bhamlin 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps? This includes functionality to extract the contained files though, which cat doesn't do. Tar basically does what this does, but metadata in tar is not human readable.

[–] sramder 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, very true. I had not read the docs… nor really thought it through. It looks like they realized similar functionality could be had with patch and stopped development. That’s a bit of a shame, there’s certainly room for more than one implementation of anything.