backup and hidden files in tar

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
>>
>>> Tar gets hidden files for me:
>>>
>>> $ mkdir foobar
>>> $ touch foobar/.foo
>>> $ tar cvf foobar.tar foobar
>>> foobar/
>>> foobar/.foo
>>
>> only because you're not doing it in the current directory.
>
> Not true:
>
> $ mkdir foobar
> $ cd foobar
> $ touch .bar
> $ tar cvf ../foobar.tar .
> ./
> ./.foo

true, since the example you initially showed claimed that tar picked 
up hidden files, but it only did so since that hidden file was in a 
subdirectory.

naturally, if you put that hidden file in the current directory and 
back up based on ".", it's going to work.  that was my whole point.

i think we've flogged this sufficiently for one day.

rday