Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:07:47 -0700 From: "'Gary Kline'" <kline@thought.org> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <20100829190747.GB4151@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <86iq2tms2e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <26118_1282929673_4C77F409_26118_366_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B434999FDCA57D@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20100827211306.68e261be.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100828070231.GA98502@thought.org> <4C78E509.6020701@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100829010531.GA1471@thought.org> <86iq2tms2e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kline@thought.org> writes: > > 'Gary> at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. > > How did you invoke it? > > There's a big difference between: > > cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything > > and > > cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles > > Did you do the latter, by chance? Sure. my default is the asterisk. ...Anyway, i used matthew's -r for recursion [with rsync] and even tested --delete on some junk ~kline/.4kde/* stuff. then slowly, got rid of more junk [[unused for =years=]] directories and files. pretty soon i'll be ready to save everything from here [tao/present/oldtao] to ethic. then i'll move everything to the newtao. then i'll give away my '03 tower. "do unto others... " or whatever:) gary PS: thanks for the tip, randal! i may have that somewhere in some obscure ~/.notesfile. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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