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  • While it is an improvement, it’s aimed at people that already knows the commands.

    For example:

    • Extract a (compressed) archive file into the current directory verbosely:
      tar xvf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]

    What is that [.gz|.bz2|.xz] at the end? to someone that knows the tool it’s too obvious to even think about, to anyone else, it’s just there to mess with you because there’s zero reference to it and some examples include it and others don’t.



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    5 days ago

    It is very easy to tell someone type this and shut up. I’ve never seen an explanation of why -a -b and -c are necessary or what they do. Although I recognise that a lot of people just want magic, and running “xyz -a -b -c” is the next best thing.

    I would love to see what cli commands the gui uses, they would be much easier and faster to learn.