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 install fd
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 than tar -xvf foo.tar
. I will happily concede that it’s not very ergonomic though. I used to rely on things like dtrx
(short for Do The Right eXtraction) because it was such a pain to remember the options for tar
/unrar
/unzip
/7z
.
Ditto 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.