There is a thing about tar that makes it slightly harder to use than it
might otherwise be.

You have to get the options in the right order,

tar -zxvpf bin.tar.gz   works, but

tar -zxvfp bin.tar.gz   doesn't

Once you know this, only the occasional tyop causes problems, but why does
it have to be that way?

As for ftp, mget is a nice idea, but it asks you to confirm that you still
want  each file as it comes up. This makes it impossible to just get a
collection of files, either by matching a pattern, or listing the files,
without sitting there.

This arises in collecting up the tarballs, so it gets me frequently.

Again, not the end of the world, but it could be easier.

Brad

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