[ale] tar question

[Robert L. Harris]

tar cvzf tar.tgz dir/.??*

Thus spake David S. Jackson (dsj at sylvester.dsj.net):

> I'm experimenting with tar, which I should know much better than
> I do.  :-)
> 
> What's the best way to include ".filenames" without including
> "..", which will include the everything in the parent directory?
> 
> So far I've been going with:
> 
> tar cvfz tarball.tar.gz dirname/.* --exclude '..'
> 
> I want to include subdirectories and their dotfiles.  Is there a
> better way to do it?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> --
> David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> They are called computers simply because computation
> is the only significant job that has so far been
> given to them.
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.



:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.