On Mon 2017-01-09 (10:51), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >I would suggest that any new to Linux browse > >http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/index.html just to gain perspective > >of what can be done at the command line. > > I'm not per se against such helpers, but they aren't good examples to > learn using Linux command line.
fstools are not for learning the command line, but to extend their usage. > Have you taken a look at e.g. catz? It checks the file name extension > instead of e.g. checking the magic number with "file" and then decides > to chose cat or zcat. fstools are open source. Where is your patch? > Or e.g. read the problem description of ax. It's simply incorrect that > it's that complicated. > > There's no need to e.g. distinguish > > tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar > > and > > tar xvzf ARCHIVE.tar.gz > > simply use tar xfv for both > > tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar > tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar.gz This is only true for GNU tar, but not for POSIX/SysV tar. Besides this, tar overwrites existing files without warning and cannot extract zip or 7z archives. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: [email protected] Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<20170109105142.706a7ece@utnubu> -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
