Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see >> it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. >> > > Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and > that's why it refused to make an empty archive. Since -C chnges to the > directory you want to backup, you use . to tell it to backup the (now) > current directory. > > >
Would using a wild card work? Like this; /mnt/gentoo/* Just curious. And to think that I thought a period was only needed for the end of a sentence. Learn something new every day I guess. Dale :-) :-)
