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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see |
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> it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. |
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Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and |
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that's why it refused to make an empty archive. Since -C chnges to the |
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directory you want to backup, you use . to tell it to backup the (now) |
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current directory. |
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