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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 3 months ago (6 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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.

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