On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:53:41 -0500, JIE 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.
I'm guessing by the .gz that you want it gzipped, but you're missing the 'z' switch. Should be "tar cvfz". Miark
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