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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suppose tar --help would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself if man tar doesn't

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

But 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.

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