020911 Davor Cengija wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:24, Phil wrote: >> Recently my bacon was saved through the use of backup files. >> However, I lost some of my hidden config files. >> Is it possible to archive hidden files with tar?
i've had no problem: go up 1 level above the dir you want to back up & do 'tar cvf tarfile.tar dirname': it should include all dot files. of course, if the data is important, you should always test the tarfile by unpacking it again in some empty space & looking for/at a few files: the tarfile will still be there to archive despite the unpacking. BTW beware of 'cp' in this respect: it doesn't automatically copy dot files. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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