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> If one checks the tar man page there are no examples. * https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#EXAMPLES https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#

by JdeBP 7y ago

> If one checks the tar man page there are no examples. * https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#EXAMPLES https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#EXAMPLES * https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES * https://illumos.org/man/1/tar#examples https://illumos.org/man/1/tar#examples * https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/t_commands/tar.html?view=embed https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/t_com... * http://osr507doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=/usr/man2/html.C/tar.C.html http://osr507doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=/usr/man2... You are clearly very limited in your user manuals. (-:

topspin 7y ago
I certainly should have qualified with "GNU tar". This raises the question; does TLDR exist simply because of GNU's dysfunction? Would TLDR exist if one could simply 'man tar' on a GNU tar system and pop down to the Examples section as one apparently can in just about every other *nix? (and one currently can't, given the unmodified man page from the most recent 1.32 release)