how do i scp .dotfiles??

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> > >>>>> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' <kline at thought.org> writes:
> > 
> > >> There's a big difference between:
> > >> 
> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
> > >> 
> > >> and
> > >> 
> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles
> > >> 
> > >> Did you do the latter, by chance?
> > 
> > 
> > 'Gary> 	Sure.  my default is the asterisk.
> > 
> > Well, there's your problem.  Sometimes, you have to actually think
> > about what you're doing. :)
> 
> The "problem" (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *,
> which includes everything else, even "nothing", and the
> form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of "all files")
> does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it
> contains * (which does not contain .*) and .* (not in *). :-)
> 


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