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for every ffmpeg option, there exists a matching small script written by some frustrated programmer who can't remember the arguments, so they wrote a script to remember it for them

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@foone I did this with tar lmao

ctar, xtar, and ttar, which create, extract, and list contents of, gzipped tarballs.

They're in my bashrc as:
alias ctar=tar -czvf
alias xtar=tar -xzvf
alias ttar=tar -tzvf

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@dragonarchitect i appreciate that you use the same argument order as me, as well as the leading dash lol

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@krishean @foone It just seems like the most idiomatic order to me. Makes the options easy to remember but I am a lazy toy and if I use it a lot and I can alias it in my bashrc to save keystrokes you bet your ass I'm going to do just that.

@dragonarchitect iirc the dash, and even the z are not necessary on modern versions of tar, but i still use them out of habit

edit: might need the z in combination with c though, i'm not certain on that without looking it up

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@krishean @dragonarchitect @foone
Ich kann mich nicht erinnern daß ich bei tar jemals Bindestriche verwenden musste. Schon seit SCO xenix nicht. ;-)

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@Michie164 @dragonarchitect @foone all the examples still have them, so it's how i learned the command. i doubt any of the examples were published long enough ago for it to need the dash though lol