LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comexternal-linkmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1887arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1873arrow-down1external-linkOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square155fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareneoman4426@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 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-up3·7 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.
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.