[ale] tar question

[Wandered Inn]

"David S. Jackson" wrote:
> 
> 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 '..'

how about tar cvzf tarball.tgz .[!.]*

> 
> 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.

--
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

Microsoft != Innovation
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.