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minus-squareneoman4426linkfedilink0•1 year agoI suppose tar --help would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself if man tar doesn’t
minus-square@Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink0•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 --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.