On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:57:12PM +0100, Nick wrote: > Is - as a stdin/stdout file actually used many places? Because it > seems awfully weird to do: > > zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t -f - > > rather than > > zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t > > or even use -f /dev/stdin as FRIGN suggested. > > If it isn't used often, I'd prefer we don't support this weird > syntax option. If it is common in scripts, though, then fine, I > (reluctantly) suppose we need it.
I agree it is ugly but it is used frequently enough in the wild.
