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Operating Systems AIX Shell Scripting (prompt off) Post 302862621 by sea on Friday 11th of October 2013 06:10:48 AM
Old 10-11-2013
@ bakjunin: Yes sorry, was just looking at the threads title.
@ kwliew999: No, man is same for both, but tar is like compress.
Sorry for the irritation.

But either way, these kind of commands usualy provide arguments to overwrite (or not) any possible conflicting files.
And terminal commands usualy come along with (sometimes just either one of) these arguments:
Code:
-h
--h
-help
--help

Which i prefer on many occasions, since i can grep for keywords, which i'm not aware to do in manpages.
Helps alot to get quicker to the helpfull 'part'.

Hope this helps
 

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