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Xavier Parizet wrote: |
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> Dale a écrit : |
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>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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>> Would using a wild card work? Like this; /mnt/gentoo/* Just curious. |
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> No a wildcard will not work as it will be expanded by your shell as |
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> /mnt/gentoo/boot, /mnt/gentoo/etc, ..., which will get you the same |
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> behaviour you said was the one you don't want ;) |
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Oh, I won't try that then. It was a thought tho. I still can't get |
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over that period thing. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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