Thanks guys for all the help. It works for me now. I should be in the directory I want to backup. Then it works perfectly. - Jeroen On Thursday 22 July 2004 07:45 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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
