On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:59:36PM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > POSIX "replaced" tar with pax(1)[0],
I'm all for promoting pax (or cpio) over tar, whether with find or what was that long discussion about a replacement for it from a while ago. Though on output it seems a bit primitive to support only globs for selecting things. Something like the converse of find (maybe also with rename or move of extracted objects' paths and attributes, or some map to be general) on output seems preferable even if that's really an edge use case. Talk is cheap though. I'll shut up now. > but we should still, if we offer tar, follow POSIX's command line > utility guidelines (forgot what they were called) which also specify > "--" as end of flags, among other things. One should be able to rely > on these, if you ask me. If only our “peers” these days would think to learn or consider the existence of such conventions, here and elsewhere, or even show an interest and put some effort in learning the rationale. regards, Alex
