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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

@dragonarchitect @foone
c create
x extract
t targets

v verbose
z comprezzed (zlib)

f file (requires an argument)

the order doesn't really matter

@mazunki @foone Except for the -f option. That one has to go last so that you can specify the output file name, if you are concatenating all of the options together, that is. If you're specifying them individually as -c -v -z -f then order doesn't matter since the input file name goes with -f.

@dragonarchitect @foone the trick is that the file must come directly after the f because it's its value!

@mazunki @foone Exactly! So by concatenating them with f as the last opt in the alias, I can type "ctar <output filename> <input file(s)>" and save keystrokes and sanity!

@dragonarchitect @foone i often just `tar cf thing.tar *`, verbose is too verbose and compressing is unnecessary. personally i find the wrappers to be more cumbersome here

@mazunki @foone I'm lazy lmao