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Maybe I'm missing something...why do the examples in the man page for tar have double v's? What's the purpose of adding a flag twice?
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Eventually, I found the answer here. This is fucking ludicrous tbh - something this trivial shouldn't be omitted from such a simple document, and if you're going to use it in an example, say what it does there! I notice it's not even mentioned in my Linux in a Nutshell book.
The more I use GNU/Linux, the less I like about it, and most often this is due to a lack of consistency and decent documentation (or particularly, a lack of consistency in the documentation itself - Linux really needs some professional document authors).
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Eventually, I found the answer here. This is fucking ludicrous tbh - something this trivial shouldn't be omitted from such a simple document, and if you're going to use it in an example, say what it does there! I notice it's not even mentioned in my Linux in a Nutshell book.
The more I use GNU/Linux, the less I like about it, and most often this is due to a lack of consistency and decent documentation (or particularly, a lack of consistency in the documentation itself - Linux really needs some professional document authors).