From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 19:07:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA2D10656A4 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0978FC13 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7TJ7mIC023290; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:07:47 -0700 From: "'Gary Kline'" To: "Randal L. Schwartz" Message-ID: <20100829190747.GB4151@thought.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86iq2tms2e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Gary Gatten , Polytropon , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:57 -0000 On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' 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 > > 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