On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:29:38 +0200, Duncan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JIE mail-list wrote: > > >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. > > > > > Try this: > > $ tar cvf backup.tar .[a-z,A-Z,0-9]* >
It was almost magical. Thanks for the help. Job
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