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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        "'Gary Kline'" <kline@thought.org>
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:  <864oedkzck.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100829190747.GB4151@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:07:47 -0700")
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> <20100829190747.GB4151@thought.org>

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>>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kline@thought.org> writes:

>> 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?


'Gary> 	Sure.  my default is the asterisk.

Well, there's your problem.  Sometimes, you have to actually think
about what you're doing. :)

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