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> it's pretty clear from the context I think that largely depends on who's using the tools and how acquainted they are with command line tools. An absolute be
by CaptArmchair 7y ago
> it's pretty clear from the context
I think that largely depends on who's using the tools and how acquainted they are with command line tools. An absolute beginner likely will not know what tar's 'f' flag does, or assume something else.
> OTOH, sometimes I'll copy-paste some perl or awk dark magic from Stack Overflow, and then try modify it piecemeal to fit my case. That's an incantation :)
And I absolutely have no qualms doing the same when push comes to shove. Ain't nobody always got the time. ;-)
- thrwaway69 7y agoI will bite - I have been using linux for 4 years. I have used tar a lot and I don't know what v means. I switch between -xvf, -xvz, etc. x - extract | f - file | z - operating on tar.gz or similar. Edit: v - verbose
- b5n 7y agoman tar | awk -F , '/-v,/ {print $2}'
- anjbe 7y agoOn OpenBSD (and other systems using mandoc as the default “man” program), I can jump to an unknown flag right away with the pager’s tag support: “:tv” -v Verbose operation mode. If -v is specified multiple times or if the -t option is also specified, tar will use a long format for listing files, similar to ls(1) -l. Or I can tack #v onto the end of the web URL: https://man.openbsd.org/tar.1#v https://man.openbsd.org/tar.1#v