Subject: Re: Tar archive (maybe offtopic)
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
From: Ladislav Popov <gandalf@mraveniste.cz>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/05/2000 23:03:14
Thanks for help.

Lada
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Allen Briggs wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:48:37 -0400
> From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
> To: Richard UNGER <runger@cs.mcgill.ca>
> Cc: Ladislav Popov <gandalf@mraveniste.cz>,
>      NetBSD mac68k port conference <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Tar archive (maybe offtopic)
> 
> > To tar all files in directory /home/user/thisdir  :
> > 
> > cd /home/user
> > tar -cvf bigtarball.tar thisdir/*
> 
> I would leave off the /*, making it:
> 
> 	tar -cvf bigtarball.tar thisdir
> 
> thisdir/* would not catch any dot-files (thisdir/.profile, for example).
> 
> -allen
> 
> 
> 

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