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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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[–] oleorun 147 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

tar --help

[–] [email protected] 146 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s tar -h

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nope, tar spec doesn't say anything about a help message. The man spec OTOH requires at least syntax documentation for all standard utilities to be present on the system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

tar -?, -h is dereference or smth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's tar --help on my system 💥

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

GNU switched to long command switches a while ago. Try bsdtar, it's still just -h.

They kept the short ones for the actual extract/compress commands though, for compatibility reasons I presume.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or by using gnu style options on potentially bsd tar

[–] oleorun 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.