Re: backup and hidden files in tar

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

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not true:
>
> $ mkdir foobar
> $ cd foobar
> $ touch .bar
> $ tar cvf ../foobar.tar .
> ./
> ./.foo

true, since the example you initially showed claimed that tar picked 
up hidden files, but it only did so since that hidden file was in a 
subdirectory.

naturally, if you put that hidden file in the current directory and 
back up based on ".", it's going to work.  that was my whole point.

i think we've flogged this sufficiently for one day.

rday