LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1896file-text
arrow-up1882external-linkOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square156fedilinkfile-text
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.
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.