$ tar jxvf lab_3a.tar.bz2
tar: invalid option -- j
Try `tar --help' for more information.
Arrgh!
Whose bright idea was it to have `j' be the option for handling bzipped
tarballs? And whose not-very-bright-at-all idea was it to *change* that
to `y'? My Debian unstable system has "j tar", the math department has
"y tar". It drives me nuts!
Didn't they realize that "tar zxvf" is deeply embedded into the
subconscious of millions of geeks like myself?
It seems like it wouldn't be difficult to extend the `z' option to
handle bzip2 archives, by simply looking at the file's extensions. Or
looking at the first bytes of the file and recognizing the binary
formats. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to do. Why hasn't anybody
done that yet?
Dan
who is better at complaining than coding :(
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