On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: > Hi all, > > I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just > want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and > directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and > directories with --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this?
I do not know if this is better but there are other ways :-) find+cpio or find+afio http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_idioms_for_the_archive Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org