archiving (ubuntu tar) hidden directories

linux ubuntu tar hidden-files
H2ONaCl picture H2ONaCl · Jan 1, 2011 · Viewed 28.5k times · Source

tar on a directory mydir will archive hidden files and hidden subdirectories, but tar from within mydir with a * wildcard will not. Is this a longstanding and known inconsistency or bug?

Edit (additional information): tar from within mydir with a wildcard will not "see" nor archive hidden files and hidden subdirectories in the immediate directory. However, in the non-hidden subdirectories of mydir hidden files and hidden subdirectories will be archived.

Answer

Madhur Ahuja picture Madhur Ahuja · Jan 1, 2011

With wildcard it will not work. You have to specify . (current directory) if you mean full directory including hidden files. You can do

tar -cvpzf test.tgz .

Related questions

error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' -- Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

My problem started off with me not being able to log in as root any more on my mysql install. I was attempting to run mysql without passwords turned on... but whenever I ran the command # mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & …

Read More
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I am an electrical engineer who mainly plays around with power systems instead of programming. Recently, I have been following a manual to install a software suite on Ubuntu. I have no knowledge of mySQL at all, actually. I have …

Read More
Lost httpd.conf file located apache

How can I find where my httpd.conf file is located? I am running an Ubuntu Linux server from the Amazon Web Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and I can't find my Apache config.

Read More