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I 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 - fil

• b5n 7y ago
  man tar | awk -F , '/-v,/ {print $2}'
• anjbe 7y ago
  On 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