Hi! On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:55:02PM +0100, LIVAI Daniel wrote: >$ uname -mrsv >OpenBSD 4.4 GENERIC#0 i386 >$ pwd >/home/daniell
>$ tar -C / -cvf test.tar ./home/daniell/.ksh* >tar: Unable to access ./home/daniell/.ksh*: No such file or directory >tar: WARNING! These file names were not selected: >./home/daniell/.ksh* >$ ls -l /home/daniell/.ksh* >-rw-r----- 1 daniell daniell [...] /home/daniell/.ksh_logout >-rw-r----- 1 daniell daniell [...] /home/daniell/.kshrc >Without the wildcard, it is working as expected. Anyone else >experiencing this? Is this a known problem? Wildcards are expanded by the *shell*. The *shell*'s working directory is *not* changed by *tar*'s option -C. *tar* does *not* expand wildcards. Kind regards, Hannah.
