Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
by sitkack on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:30AM
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Fully laden Gnu tar or BSD tar?
Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
by bee_rider on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:46AM
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I guess GNU most likely. On my system, it’s just Ubuntu, and on the server side, it is, I guess, whatever the administrator installed, haha.
Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
by kiwijamo on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @08:51PM
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Both commands work in either I believe. I've been using both since my FreeBSD days and now I use Debian Linux with no change.
Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
by mitsu_at on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:34AM
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Reminded of this xkcd :P https://xkcd.com/1168/
Of course, then we get the question, ok, why not use a program that just provides those options? But, I think all the extra functionality of tar is nice to have sitting off there in the background; I’d have to look it up if I actually wanted to use it, but it is all there in the documentation, and nicely compatible with the files produced by my memorized commands.