LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1599arrow-down1imageOld XKCD, still relevantlemmy.dbzer0.comLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·5 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-up13·5 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-up3·5 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-up1·5 months agoIt didn’t say you could only enter one try, just that you had 10 seconds. The man page should give you something
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