OK, It appears that i blasted only the first *.f90 it came to in the ./various_/*.f90 directory. But it still blasted that file.
Vince On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:05 PM Vince Eccles <vince.ecc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sirs, > > I worked all day on debugging some important coding in FORTRAN. It was > tested and working. I decided it was time to tar up the new code and send > it to a backup machine. > > I intended to type: > > tar -zcf src.tar.gz ./various_*/*.f90 *.f90 > > which would have places all the fortran codes in a compressed tar file > that I would transfer to a new machine. > > However, I typed: > > tar -zcf ./various_/*.f90 *.f90 > > and the tar blasted all of my fortran files. I had a backup from two days > ago, but the lost effort was horrific. > > There needs to be a test to make sure stupid things don't happen. > > Vince Eccles, long time LINUX user for scientific programming. >
