Oh, just funny mental gymnastics if we are aiming for survival in 10 seconds with a valid, exit code 0 tar command. :)
As tar is a POSIX (ISO standard for "portable operating system interfaces") utility, I am also highlighting what might get us killed as all of us are mostly used to GNU systems with all the GNU extensions (think also bash commands in scripts vs pure sh too).
Hehe fair enough in that case. Tho nothing said it had to work on a tar from like 1979 ;)
To me at least POSIX is dead. It's what Windows (before WSL) supported with its POSIX subsystem so it could say it was compatible but of course it was entirely unusable.
Initial release July 27, 1993; 32 years ago
Like, POSIX: Take the cross section of all the most obscure UNICES out there and declare that you're a UNIX as long as you support that ;)
And yeah I use a Mac at work so a bunch of things I was used to "all my life" so to speak don't work. And they didn't work on AIX either. But that's why you install a sane toolchain (GNU ;) ).
Like sure I was actually building a memory compactification algorithm for MINIX with the vi that comes with MINIX. Which is like some super old version of it that can't do like anything you'd be used to from a VIM. It works. But it's not nice. That's like literally the one time I was using hjkl instead of arrow keys.
As tar is a POSIX (ISO standard for "portable operating system interfaces") utility, I am also highlighting what might get us killed as all of us are mostly used to GNU systems with all the GNU extensions (think also bash commands in scripts vs pure sh too).
No offense intended, just the hackers' chat.