On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with | causing recursion?
tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]* tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include the directory you are writing the tar file to (it tries to include it, and it bombs out). -D -- "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --Jim Elliot