on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:40:04PM +1000, Colin Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tar czvf filename.tar.gz .* > > tar czvf filename.tar.gz .??*
that wont get a dot file with only 1 other letter .x ls -A |grep "^\." is a good way to get all dirs and files that start with . but not . and .. so tar czvf filename.tar.gz `ls -A |grep "^\."` BB > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
