On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > >>>>> "'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. :)
The "problem" (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *, which includes everything else, even "nothing", and the form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of "all files") does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it contains * (which does not contain .*) and .* (not in *). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ 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"
