Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah Cowan: > A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154 > > describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way > that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose > important data. > > While I'm opposed to fixing the problem in tar itself, as traditional > usage frequently relies upon this behavior, I don't see why we > couldn't make the experience of using tar interactively a little > safer, by providing a default alias for tar in /etc/skel/.bashrc that > backs-up existing files.
I think GUI archive tools should ask or backup before overwriting by default, but changing the behaviour of command line tools might cause problems. -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
