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I could never quite get those tar flags right and often have to `man tar`.
by meric 11y ago
I could never quite get those tar flags right and often have to `man tar`.
- unit91 11y agohttps://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/ Had to be done.
- collyw 11y agoThats normal (I think). Its one of those use "every 6 months" commands, once you get away from the usual tar -xzvf falgs.(Enough tiime to know it exists but too long to remember the actulay syntax).
- jacquesm 11y agoDitto rsync and the more obscure gcc stuff (though that usually ends up in makefiles rather than be typed in on the command line after trying it the first time).
- JadeNB 11y agoI think, though I'm not sure I can explain why exactly, there's a difference between using one utility—Google—to answer all questions (with no real understanding of what's the 'right' place to ask), and doing focussed research—even if that focus is as minor as just reading the relevant documentation for the specific question.
- jacquesm 11y agoAt some level google (or ddg or whatever you use) is the new 'man'. Especially since many man pages now simply read: "The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which makes it impossible to include any text from that document in this man page. Most of the text in this document was automatically extracted from the usage text in the source. It may not completely describe all features of the program."