On Friday 18 February 2005 7:53 pm, JIE mail-list wrote:
> I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup
> purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files
> without also getting everything else in the folder.
>
> $ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .*
> This seems to get everything in the folder; not good.
It gets everything in the folder, since the"." directory (the current
directory) matches the ".*" file specification.
Try using:
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz .??*
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