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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish68•6 months agoYou just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
tar --help
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.
You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.
Lmao
Or by using gnu style options on potentially bsd tar