On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
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
true, since the example you initially showed claimed that tar picked up hidden files, but it only did so since that hidden file was in a subdirectory.
naturally, if you put that hidden file in the current directory and back up based on ".", it's going to work. that was my whole point.
i think we've flogged this sufficiently for one day.
rday
