On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:00 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
He wants *only* the dotfiles (and none of the regular files)
[...]
That's why he changed it to the following, which requires there be a
non-dot character after the dot
tar zcfv
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:00 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
He wants *only* the dotfiles (and none of the regular files)
[...]
That's why he changed it to the following, which requires there be a
non-dot character after the dot
tar zcfv
Quoting Ken Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
A correct solution that covers all of the corner cases would be to
replace the glob with
find -path './.*' -maxdepth 1
Elegant. I like this a lot.
--
Rick Moen You can stop running that response to Virginia's
r...@linuxmafia.com
On 01/18/2011 03:43 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
tar cf dotfiles.tar .[!.]* || exit 2
I agreed with most of Brian's post, but the above seems unnecessarily complex
and useless. My best guess is that someone is paranoid, doesn't understand
that .. is a special case, or maybe it's portable to some
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:07 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote:
On 01/18/2011 03:43 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
tar cf dotfiles.tar .[!.]* || exit 2
I agreed with most of Brian's post, but the above seems unnecessarily complex
and useless. My best guess is that someone is paranoid, doesn't
Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
He wants *only* the dotfiles (and none of the regular files)
[...]
That's why he changed it to the following, which requires there be a
non-dot character after the dot
tar zcfv dotfiles.tar .[!.]*
$ cd /tmp
$ touch ..foo
$ ls .[!.]*
$
On 01/18/2011 06:40 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:07 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote:
I think you're misreading his intent.
Heh, worse, I didn't, but my test case didn't expose that it would slurp
up normal files as well. So my mistake.
[valid explanation snipped]
Shouldn't need to be any particular variety of live cd, I would think, to copy
files.
Bill Kendrick n...@sonic.net wrote:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do
separate partitions for / and /home.
Cool,
On 01/16/2011 10:40 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
Long story shoty. I have a Kubuntu 9.04 install. Finally told it to upgrade,
and it brought itself up to 9.10, and then I initiated an upgrade to 10.04.
It started reporting errors, with the only options being Report Bug (which
did nothing) and
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do
separate partitions for / and /home.
Cool, thanks. And yeah, lesson learned. :)
Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the
command line
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