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sealinux@gmail.com
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:53 am    Post subject: N00b tar question Reply with quote
How can I tar up my entire home directory, including the dot folders?

I've used

tar -czpf home.tar.gz /home/joe

And it gets all the dot folders in all of the subdirectories, but the
ones in the root of /home/joe.

What gives?
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jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.u
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 202

PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:23 pm    Post subject: Re: N00b tar question Reply with quote
sealinux@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
How can I tar up my entire home directory, including the dot folders?

I've used

tar -czpf home.tar.gz /home/joe

And it gets all the dot folders in all of the subdirectories, but the
ones in the root of /home/joe.

What gives?

Well, a quick test along these lines does not reproduce the problem:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch .hidden
$ tar -czpf ~/tmp/tmp.tar.gz .
$ tar tzf ~/tmp/tmp.tar.gz
..
../.hidden

Are you certain you did not do tar -czpf home.tar.gz /home/joe/*? This
would function as you described... (use /home/joe/{,.}* for a quick way
to express 'and dotfiles' in the shell, or just use /home/joe).

Joachim
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sealinux@gmail.com
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:38 pm    Post subject: Re: N00b tar question Reply with quote
jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.uu.nl wrote:

Quote:
Are you certain you did not do tar -czpf home.tar.gz /home/joe/*? This
would function as you described... (use /home/joe/{,.}* for a quick way
to express 'and dotfiles' in the shell, or just use /home/joe).

Joachim

That's exactly what I did.

As is often the case, when I did it your way, it worked the way it was
supposed to.

Thanks again.
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