Re: Backup config files in home directory

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
> want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
> directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and
> directories with --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this?

I do not know if this is better but there are other ways :-)

find+cpio or find+afio

 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_idioms_for_the_archive

Osamu