[PLUG] tar usage question

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Nov 1 23:22:37 UTC 2009


On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:

> * doesn't match files starting with dot.  the right way to tar a directory
> is to use . as the arg:
>
> tar cvzf /media/disk/psa-home.tgz .

   Oh, duh! I knew that. But, for some reason my head's elsewhere this
afternoon.

Thanks, Joe,

Rich



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