On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > > > Tar gets hidden files for me: > > > > $ mkdir foobar > > $ touch foobar/.foo > > $ tar cvf foobar.tar foobar > > foobar/ > > foobar/.foo > > only because you're not doing it in the current directory. Not true: $ mkdir foobar $ cd foobar $ touch .bar $ tar cvf ../foobar.tar . ./ ./.foo Though I consider most tar archives made from current directory to be in bad form (mainly because when you unpack it in the wrong place it's harder to clean up).
