Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
tar -h
tar --help
You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.
In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s
tar -h
F
tar x
tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./
I even read this aloud in my head as “CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE” in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.
File not found, now we are dead.
Sounds like an error message from a
valid tar command
tar -cf file.tar directory/
that was 8 seconds. close one, i saved us all
How do you know
directory
exists? 😨shit
tar --version
You’re welcome
I’d have gone with
tar --help
It’s insane that this isn’t consistent.
Any combination of
-h
,-?
and--help
exists between tools (from 0 to all 3 of them)
I do
tax -xvf filename
tax
Boom.