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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:22 AM

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?

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:23 AM

sealinux@gmail.com wrote:
> 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

#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:23 AM

jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.uu.nl wrote:

> 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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