I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup
purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files
without also getting everything else in the folder.

$ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .*   
This seems to get everything in the folder; not good.

Thanks,

Job

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