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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
