Re: backup and hidden files in tar

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> Tar gets hidden files for me:
>
> $ mkdir foobar
> $ touch foobar/.foo
> $ tar cvf foobar.tar foobar
> foobar/
> foobar/.foo

only because you're not doing it in the current directory.

rday