On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ola Theander wrote:

> Hi Mike.
>
> My tar line looks like this: tar zcvf dest-file source-dirs
>
> /Ola
>

That's rather strange, because when i do a:

tar zcvf test.tar /home/mdresser, I get all my dot files in the tar file

Sounds like something specific to your distribution/version of tar.

what does tar --version say?, and which distro?

Mike

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