So what? If I don't get the file globbing right to "rm" I could potentially
nuke the wrong files. Should that be removed as well?

It's a nice interface/option, people like it and the build uses it for valid
things. Past that, I'm not sure anyone cares about the rest of this.

James

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>> It is theoretically trivial, yes.  I have found that it is often more
>> convenient, though, to extract it to stdout.
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>For human viewing of files it may not be such a big deal, but if you do
>this in a program that handles more arbitrary archives then you risk
>either getting more than you wanted or else not seeing the final copy of
>a file that occurs more than once in an archive (or else you have to
>reading the whole archive first anyway to get a file listing and then
>read at least some of it again to look at the file in question).
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