James Wilkinson wrote: > The most straightforward I can think of at this time of night > is > > [james@howells moo]$ find . -maxdepth 1 | egrep -v '^\.$' | xargs tar cvf woof.tar ./.oink > ./baa The most straight-forward way is to tell the shell you want the dot files: $ ls -a ./ ../ .uu $ echo * * $ shopt -s dotglob $ echo * .uu $ shopt -u dotglob $ echo * * -- â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â
