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Nowaday I have ChatGPT spew me command. I usually do a quick validation before running. Nevertheless, most of simple operations are correct so I don't need to.
I then note the command to my persional gist cheatsheet. Next time, since the command is "cached", I'll be able to be productive quicker.
So much better than googling.
So a serious question from someone who can't remember console commands ever despite using them constantly.
Why are so many linux CLI commands set up with defaults that no one ever uses? Like if you pretty much always need -f, -v is often used, and --auto-compress is needed to recognize type by extension. Why aren't those the defaults to just using tar?
A lot of applications I find are like this too, they don't come with defaults that work or that anyone would ever use.
That looks really cool. And finally a guide that knows -z is not necessary all the time.
OMG always assumed that -c always stands for "compress" and I always placed .gz at the end to remember to place -x when extracting
I just use atool (archive tool) instead. It works the same for any common compression format (tar, gzip, zip, 7zip, rar, etc) and comes with handy aliases like apack and aunpack obsoleting the need to memorize options.
I've written a CLI tool in Rust as a front end to tar with gzip called Targez.
It can definitely just be done with an alias instead, but you can give it a try if you prefer something installable.
Don't you have to specify the compression algorithm when extracting? I always use tar -xzf for gzip files and if I remove -z it just fails.
I've been using only xf for a long time now. Don't remember ever getting an error from it in the last years. Maybe tar can now check the magic number or something to figure out what the format is?
great, now how do I use it together with the 'feather' command?
Do more like this (・へ・)
Check out atool
tar is just the worst shell command in existence. Why do people still bother with it?
What do you use instead?
I use zip/unzip if I have the option
I avoid it and use zip or 7z if I can. But for some crazy reason some people stil insist on using that garbage tool and I have no idea why.
Because everyone else does, and if everyone else does, then I must, and if I do, then everyone else must, and then everyone else does.
Repeat loop.
You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
You've never used find have you? Let's not even get started on the config file syntax for sendmail either.