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What were the magic letters you need to add again, to just fucking unpack something? (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

When I point an (un)packing program at a packed archive, the default action should be to fucking unpack it.
And when I point it at anything else, it should pack it into the default format.

Everything else can be options.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

"The world should conform to my expectations, not long-standing conventions!"

But if you engage your thinking meat, you might just discover the magic of alias untar='tar xvf'.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why are long standing conventions a good thing? Slavery was a longstanding convention.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No human rights are violated by tar functioning the way it does, but changing it would cause a lot of problems without good reason since you could just as easily write an alias or wrapper to simplify the usage

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