Reading the Manual: GNU tar (Part 2)

Preamble In my previous post , I went through the first two chapters of the GNU tar manual. Now, I move beyond the beginners' tutorial. Observations Section 3: Invoking GNU tar The old style of invoking tar uses a single letter to indicate which tar operation is being used. Section 3 claims that arguments can technically be put in any order, though we saw in the tutorial that changing order of…