On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:12:11PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kl...@thought.org> writes: > > >> There's a big difference between: > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything > >> > >> and > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles > >> > >> Did you do the latter, by chance? > > > 'Gary> Sure. my default is the asterisk. > > Well, there's your problem. Sometimes, you have to actually think > about what you're doing. :) >
LOL! man, when i get into hackery mode--especially playing at being a system admin-- i just go into autopilot. well, live and learn. this stuff has been a good reminder. hope it helps a few others listmembers. (FWIW,I actually did find the dot vs asterisk note in a old howto file. i dont know if i ought to fess up, but i am.) here's another fwiw before i really launch: it pays to do a du from $HOME every few [n] months. i'm finding so much unused crud, e.g. ~/.wine from 2004, that my drive is going to weigh a few pounds less... > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
