On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
That's exactly the intention, because there sort of IS a file (or, more
accruately, a directory) called simply ".".
Oh yeah. I forgot.
If you type "ls -a" from any directory in Linux, the first two things you'll
see are "./" and "../". ./
Hello again.
Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning
with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape
bookmarks when moving from Caldera to Mandrake (they are stored in the
.netscape hidden directory...).
Since I try a distro every 2 or 3 weeks
Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello again.
Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning
with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape
bookmarks when moving from Caldera to Mandrake (they are stored in the
.netscape hidden
? does so by default try tar cvfz /some/where/something.tar.gz /home/you
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote:
Hello again.
Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning
with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape
bookmarks when moving
well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do:
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz *
but
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz .
I'm pretty sure this wildcard string will expand to be *all* files--dot
or otherwise.
[.]*
"." alone... it looks like it would only match a file called
On 24-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote:
well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do:
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz *
but
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz .
I'm pretty sure this wildcard string will expand to be *all* files--dot
or otherwise.
[.]*
"." alone... it looks
