21 Jul
2018
21 Jul
'18
5:01 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:39:20AM -0400, John P. Linderman wrote:
Interesting that of all the commands mentioned, ar is
(at least for
me) no
longer used (although I haven't used ed in many
years).
".deb" packages (used by Debian and Ubuntu linuxes) are a header file
and two .tar.gz files packed into ar format. ar(1) is widely used to
unscrew Debian packages on systems without dpkg tools installed. So,
while it might not be be doing the same job, it retains some currency
in the land of linux.
khm