On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:28:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>pax -wvzf /u/maint/myarchive.pax *
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:30:35 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>No, I was trying to archive the current directory, and it contained a file
>named -x (created accidentally) and the next folder is named 'foldername' (per
>my original post).
>
Not "recursively"; it's ordinary shell filename expansion, which isn't
recursive,
but results in "-x" passed as an argument to pax. Particularly treacherous
because "-" collates early. My preferred approaches are:
pax -wvzf /u/maint/myarchive.pax ./* # Should work. Or:
pax -wvzf /u/maint/myarchive.pax . # Better. Unless you need to exclude
dotted files.
All WAD.
--gil
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