sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up1830arrow-down117
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minus-squared00phy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·10 months agoThe “-“ is often not necessary. I use it as a guide to see how long the person running tar has been using it. Example: tar -xf file.tar == tar xf file.tar
minus-squareFushuan [he/him]@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 months agoThey are functionally flags though and uniletter flags should be preceded by a ‘-’, so I would still prefer to have the ‘-’ written, because it conforms with the standard.
The “-“ is often not necessary. I use it as a guide to see how long the person running tar has been using it.
Example:
tar -xf file.tar == tar xf file.tar
They are functionally flags though and uniletter flags should be preceded by a ‘-’, so I would still prefer to have the ‘-’ written, because it conforms with the standard.
But muh POSIX
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