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JdeBP

> If one checks the tar man page there are no examples.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#EXAMPLES

* https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES

* https://illumos.org/man/1/tar#examples

* https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/t_com...

* http://osr507doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=/usr/man2...

You are clearly very limited in your user manuals. (-:

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I certainly should have qualified with "GNU tar". This raises the question; does TLDR exist simply because of GNU's dysfunction? Would TLDR exist if one could simply 'man tar' on a GNU tar system and pop down to the Examples section as one apparently can in just about every other *nix?

(and one currently can't, given the unmodified man page from the most recent 1.32 release)

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