Now, a major
annoyance I find are tarballs that vomit files in the current
directory instead of a subdirectory based off the name of the tar file
(usually foobar.tar will, when extracted, create a directory called foobar
that contains the files; but that's a *convention* not mandatory).
YES.
A thousand times YES. I always tar tvf a tarchive before I tar xf it.
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