People don't read documentation. I clicked on this thing thinking "No, it's can't just be about the ~ escape, right? There's some content here.... Right?"
I lost. It's a blog post about a documented feature. Tune in next week for the "-j" option to tar!
Uh... my man page says nothing about deprecation, it just documents its behavior.
And I certainly still find it useful, in any case, for situations where autodetection won't work -- for example when you are creating an archive. Y'know, with the "-c" flag that apparently you haven't read about yet.
Bazinga!
(edit: What I find most interesting isn't so much that you goofed your snipe, which happens all the time. It's that someone upvoted it.)
I lost. It's a blog post about a documented feature. Tune in next week for the "-j" option to tar!