>>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kl...@thought.org> writes:
>> 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? 'Gary> Sure. my default is the asterisk. Well, there's your problem. Sometimes, you have to actually think about what you're doing. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
