Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s tar -h
tar -h
F
It's tar --help on my system 💥
tar --help
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.
tar -?, -h is dereference or smth.
tar -?
-h
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.
I use Arch btw
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In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s
tar -h
F
It's
tar --help
on 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.
tar -?
,-h
is dereference or smth.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.