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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Actually this reminds me, what is the deal with tar command recommendations to use or not use dash? I know GNU tar accepts both (e.g.) tar xvf file.tar and tar -xvf file.tar, but at some points people were like "NO! Don't use the dash! It's going to maybe cause issues somewhere, who knows!" and I was like "OK". Something to do with people up designing the Unix specs?

[-] ben@feddit.dk 5 points 6 months ago

I didn't even know the dash was optional. I guess you learn something new everyday.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I still use it though. Its how I learned it all those years ago and its ingrained as muscle memory when typing the command.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

idk if it's optional why bother typing it

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 months ago

personally, it is a little easier to read, especially in a script. and its more consistent with other commands

[-] debil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No idea, but with tar I never use dashes. Just tar xf away.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

POSIX. POSIX didn't get designed but documented behaviour that was portable between different UNIX flavours and was then declared a standard.

If you're annoyed by it just consider the xvf in tar xvf to be a subcommand as pull is in git pull. Tar simply has a fancy subcommand syntax. At least it's not dd.

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