sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1836arrow-down117
arrow-up1819arrow-down1imageHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgsebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square144fedilink
minus-squared00phy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·9 months agoThe “-“ is often not necessary. I use it as a guide to see how long the person running tar has been using it. Example: tar -xf file.tar == tar xf file.tar
minus-squareFushuan [he/him]@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 months agoThey are functionally flags though and uniletter flags should be preceded by a ‘-’, so I would still prefer to have the ‘-’ written, because it conforms with the standard.
minus-squaresuperbirra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months agoyeah, you can also ditch that f tar c /etc/passwd > fu.tar tar t < fu.tar tar x < fu.tar
The “-“ is often not necessary. I use it as a guide to see how long the person running tar has been using it.
Example:
tar -xf file.tar == tar xf file.tar
They are functionally flags though and uniletter flags should be preceded by a ‘-’, so I would still prefer to have the ‘-’ written, because it conforms with the standard.
But muh POSIX
yeah, you can also ditch that f
tar c /etc/passwd > fu.tar
tar t < fu.tar
tar x < fu.tar