Re: Wildcard for hidden files
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On 10/21/06 10:31, Chris wrote:
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 14:48, Clive Menzies wrote:
>> On (21/10/06 07:23), Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 10/21/06 07:14, Clive Menzies wrote:
>>>> On (21/10/06 14:01), Chris wrote:
[snip]
> I know, I'm being a pain, but if I want to pipe this list to tar? Something
> like:
>
> tar -cvvzf test.tar.gz (ls -aFl grep " /.")
No pain if you have experimented first. OTOH...
But I'd use du(1) instead.
dots=$(du --max-depth=1 -a | cut -f2 | grep '\.\/\.' | sort)
tar cvvjf dotfiles.tar.bz2 $dots
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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