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I guess
man tar
is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...I suppose
tar --help
would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself ifman tar
doesn'tBut it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.
GNU introduced the "--foo" style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.
It didnβt say you could only enter one try, just that you had 10 seconds. The man page should give you something
True. But then I would use
curl cheat.sh/tar