On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Michael Ewan wrote:

> Also if you want just the dot files/dirs you can try this:
> tar cvzf /media/disk/psa-home.tgz .??*
> .??* will match all dot files that have more the two characters in the
> name, thus skipping . and .., if you have a dot file named something like
> .a, you will have to name that explicitly on the command line.

   Thank you, Michael. I learned that very early this year and saved the
syntax 'cause I knew I'd need it again. I do appreciate your reminder.

Rich
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