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(joke)
YOU FOOL! THE ACTUAL COMMAND WAS
tar -?That dash looks an awful lot like an em-dash
Normal:
-Em:
–That reminds me of this Elle Cordova short: https://youtube.com/shorts/ky0YOo7_Y0o