NOTE: If you like this idea, you really should try the unp.

(Experimental) Pytar

Cause I'll never remember a valid tar command.

Boom!

I don't know if its a good or bad idea, but I'm doing anyway.

• Free software: BSD license
• Documentation: http://pytar.rtfd.org.

Features

Well, for now:

• Extracting tar files without having to remember those commands.

  # pytar $ACTION $TARGET
  $ pytar extract my-tar-file.tar

Install

• Using PIP.

  $ pip install pytar --pre

See --pre flag on PIP documentation.