Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:06:33 -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: <86iq2tms2e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <20100829010531.GA1471@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:31 -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>
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>>>>> "'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?
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