Hi all,

There's probably a pretty simple way to do this
but I'd like to create a tar file of the contents
of a directory including the .dot files.

$ tar -cvf zzz.tar *

does not include the . files.

but anything like

$ tar -cvf zzz.tar .* or \.* or ./\.*

don't seem to work either, they get the parent directory.

I know this is dumb, can someone out here?


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In comp.unix.shell Julien Mills <julien@amorosobaking.com>:
> Hi all,

> There's probably a pretty simple way to do this
> but I'd like to create a tar file of the contents
> of a directory including the .dot files.

> $ tar -cvf zzz.tar *

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:17:45 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.unix.shell Julien Mills <julien@amorosobaking.com>:
>> Hi all,
>
>> There's probably a pretty simple way to do this
>> but I'd like to create a tar file of the contents
>> of a directory including the .dot files.
>
>> $ tar -cvf zzz.tar *
> .
>
>> does not include the . files.
>
> Try using "." only.

Good, now why didn't I think of that?