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Old XKCD, still relevant(lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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tar --help

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dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s tar -h

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Gork@lemm.ee
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F

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foobaz@lemmy.world
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It’s tar --help on my system 💥

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0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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GNU switched to long command switches a while ago. Try bsdtar, it’s still just -h.

They kept the short ones for the actual extract/compress commands though, for compatibility reasons I presume.

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dogsoahC@lemm.ee
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tar -?, -h is dereference or smth.

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barsoap@lemm.ee
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Nope, tar spec doesn’t say anything about a help message. The man spec OTOH requires at least syntax documentation for all standard utilities to be present on the system.

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jflorez@sh.itjust.works
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You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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Lmao

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Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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Or by using gnu style options on potentially bsd tar

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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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tar -h
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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Just tar, no arguments. Does nothing, still a valid command, no?

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foobaz@lemmy.world
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Exit code 2 -> boom

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rrconkle@lemmy.zip
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tar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' options
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
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doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz
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Boom. tar --help for anyone wondering

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kameecoding@lemmy.world
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I do tax -xvf filename

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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tax

Boom.

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kameecoding@lemmy.world
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ah fuck, didn’t even notice

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justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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quod erat demonstrandum :D

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Bosht@lemmy.world
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Christ this comment chain is perfect lmfao

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DogWater@lemmy.world
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I like the way you pointed that out lmao

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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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… aaaaaand you’ve killed us all.

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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./

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v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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I even read this aloud in my head as “CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE” in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.

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RealPuyo@lemmy.world
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Read it in tf2 medics voice

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Edgarallenpwn [they/them]@midwest.social
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I didn’t realize that was my default German voice in my head. Thx

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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lol that’s honestly a great mnemonic

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rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I’d be fucked

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thejml@lemm.ee
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tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz

… fixed. Apparently I can’t type.

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hallettj@leminal.space
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I think you want to remove the c because that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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QED 🫠

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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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File not found, now we are dead.

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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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Sounds like an error message from a valid tar command

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doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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tar --version

You’re welcome

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bitwaba@lemmy.world
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I’d have gone with tar --help

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flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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It’s insane that this isn’t consistent.

Any combination of -h, -? and --help exists between tools (from 0 to all 3 of them)

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zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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Never seen -?, it’s either -h, --help, or -help for programs that just want to be different.

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FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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So would have been 1:4

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Aganim@lemmy.world
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Sorry, the bomb was running MacOS. Your command was not valid and you’ve doomed us all.

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Andrew@mander.xyz
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It’s literally there at the bottom.

What isn’t valid is MacOS, it’s macOS now.

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