LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square142fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejflorez@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYou just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
minus-squarePhrodo_00@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoOr by using gnu style options on potentially bad tar
minus-squareoleorun@real.lemmy.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoFuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoIn the true spirit of UNIX, it’s tar -h
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months agoNope, 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.
minus-square0x4E4F@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoGNU 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.
tar - - help
You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
Or by using gnu style options on potentially bad tar
Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.
In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s
tar -hNope, 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.
F
tar -?,-his dereference or smth.It’s
tar --helpon my system 💥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.