On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kl...@thought.org> 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?
Sure. my default is the asterisk. ...Anyway, i used matthew's -r
for recursion [with rsync] and even tested --delete on some junk
~kline/.4kde/* stuff.
then slowly, got rid of more junk [[unused for =years=]]
directories and files. pretty soon i'll be ready to save
everything from here [tao/present/oldtao] to ethic. then i'll
move everything to the newtao. then i'll give away my '03 tower.
"do unto others... " or whatever:)
gary
PS: thanks for the tip, randal! i may have that somewhere in some
obscure ~/.notesfile.
>
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