Old XKCD, still relevant
Old XKCD, still relevant
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
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Actually this reminds me, what is the deal with tar command recommendations to use or not use dash? I know GNU tar accepts both (e.g.)
tar xvf file.tarandtar -xvf file.tar, but at some points people were like "NO! Don't use the dash! It's going to maybe cause issues somewhere, who knows!" and I was like "OK". Something to do with people up designing the Unix specs?-
I didn't even know the dash was optional. I guess you learn something new everyday.
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I still use it though. Its how I learned it all those years ago and its ingrained as muscle memory when typing the command.
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POSIX. POSIX didn't get designed but documented behaviour that was portable between different UNIX flavours and was then declared a standard.
If you're annoyed by it just consider the
xvfintar xvfto be a subcommand aspullis ingit pull. Tar simply has a fancy subcommand syntax. At least it's notdd. -
No idea, but with tar I never use dashes. Just tar xf away.
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idk if it's optional why bother typing it
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personally, it is a little easier to read, especially in a script. and its more consistent with other commands
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