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An image of a Vietnam war soldier having flashbacks is superimposed !<
find
is also just a fucking mess in terms of UX. The fact that the ordering of positional and optional arguments are so strongly tied to each other has always driven me fucking bonkers. Nowadays, I installfd
everywhere I can and tell people to switch to it and never look back.locate
is nice and all, but I always forget to update the db and I don’t want it populating in the background.tar
doesn’t bug me as much, provided you use unix or GNU style options.tar xvf foo.tar
is just icky and less readable thantar -xvf foo.tar
. I will happily concede that it’s not very ergonomic though. I used to rely on things likedtrx
(short for Do The Right eXtraction) because it was such a pain to remember the options fortar
/unrar
/unzip
/7z
.You reminded me of
fd
. Thank you!I got accustomed to the options for
tar
and7z
. forfind
, I just pipe it togrep
or useless
to search for something. It just takes time the first time you run itDitto for
tar
andunrar
, although I deal with.7z
so infrequently that I have to look at the manual every time I use it.find
’s fucked up argument handling really becomes a problem for me when I want to use it in a complex pipeline or when using the-exec
flag. I’ve spent far less time debugging in those situations since switching tofd
. I won’t yuck the yum of folks who are comfortable and likefind
, but I feel that we probably have more approachable alternatives for new users.