>>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <[email protected]> writes:
'Gary> at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles.
How did you invoke it?
There's a big difference between:
cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
and
cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles
Did you do the latter, by chance?
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