On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| causing recursion?
tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include
the directory you are writing the tar file to (it tries to include it,
and it bombs out).
-D
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