LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comexternal-linkmessage-square154linkfedilinkarrow-up1889arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1875arrow-down1external-linkOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square154linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareneoman4426@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year 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-up3·1 year 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.
I suppose
tar --help
would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself ifman tar
doesn’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.