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I guess
man tar
is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...I suppose
tar --help
would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself ifman tar
doesn'tBut it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.
GNU introduced the "--foo" style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.