[ale] How to get hidden files into a tar archive?

[Terzo]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

don't use the *

just 

tar -cvf this.dir.tar dirname

--terzo

> When I tar up a directory for backups I usually do something like "tar cvzf 
> filename.tar.gz dirname/*". Unfortunately, this does not get any of the 
> hidden files (prefixed with a '.') which I need this time. Can someone tell 
> me how to do this?
> thannx & later,		Ben Scherrey
> 
> 	Ben Scherrey
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