Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
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In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s
tar -hF
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.
tar -?,-his 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.