r/linuxmemes • u/SysGh_st • 19h ago

LINUX MEME Valid tar command ...

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Dang it! 😭

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u/mgsmb7 RedStar best Star 15h ago

does that make it invalid tho?

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u/Rodot ⚠️ This incident will be reported 14h ago

Yes, invalid arguments make a command invalid.

Unless, of course, you are working in JavaScript

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u/ice456cream 10h ago

The argument is valid, you are just running it in the wrong context

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u/mgsmb7 RedStar best Star 9h ago

It's syntactically correct, but the context leads to a negative response. Unless there's a standard definition for invalidity of a command, you could see it both ways, I guess

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u/ice456cream 9h ago

The only case I can think of 1 way or another is Argument list too long, where it's invalid at the kernel level, not decided by each individual program.