plaintext @lemmy.world avidseeker @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Plaintext tar

github.com GitHub - LHLaurini/textar: tar-like program for creating plain text archives from plain text files

tar-like program for creating plain text archives from plain text files - GitHub - LHLaurini/textar: tar-like program for creating plain text archives from plain text files

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So confused. Wasn’t this what cat was originally intended for?
- Perhaps? This includes functionality to extract the contained files though, which cat doesn't do. Tar basically does what this does, but metadata in tar is not human readable.
  
  Yeah, very true. I had not read the docs… nor really thought it through. It looks like they realized similar functionality could be had with patch and stopped development. That’s a bit of a shame, there’s certainly room for more than one implementation of anything.
From the link: Note: this repository has been marked read-only. Similar functionality can be achieved with diff and patch.