So if the long-form flag is --directory, what is the short-form?
Did you say, -C?
Why yes, of course.
#tar #technology #design #consistency #wereNotVeryCleverButWeSureThinkWeAre
@aral it's full of stuff like that..
OS-ses need an overhaul entirely. Also with much smaller programs that can _actually_ communicate, automatically but configurably and less awkwardly than stitching stdin and stdouts together..
Like arguments, stdin and stdout also only have the vaguest suggestion on how data will be represented in there. Really it should be declared beforehand what's in there.
@jasper @aral This primarily manifests on a shell level, though? I'm not sure what issues you're seeing on an OS level - there's plenty wrong the design of current-gen OSes, but it's already entirely possible to use standardized serialization formats today without requiring OS-level changes.
What specifically would need to change for this on the OS level?
