LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1894arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1880arrow-down1imageOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square156fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·6 months agoI guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command…
minus-squareneoman4426@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·6 months agoI suppose tar --help would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself if man tar doesn’t
minus-squareEmma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoBut it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar. GNU introduced the “–foo” style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.
minus-squarebradorsomething@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoIt didn’t say you could only enter one try, just that you had 10 seconds. The man page should give you something
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoTrue. But then I would use curl cheat.sh/tar
I guess
man taris cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command…I suppose
tar --helpwould technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself ifman tardoesn’tBut it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.
GNU introduced the “–foo” style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.
It didn’t say you could only enter one try, just that you had 10 seconds. The man page should give you something
True. But then I would use
curl cheat.sh/tar