Subject: Re: Tar archive (maybe offtopic)
To: Richard UNGER <runger@cs.mcgill.ca>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/05/2000 16:48:37 
> To tar all files in directory /home/user/thisdir  :
> 
> cd /home/user
> tar -cvf bigtarball.tar thisdir/*

I would leave off the /*, making it:

	tar -cvf bigtarball.tar thisdir

thisdir/* would not catch any dot-files (thisdir/.profile, for example).

-allen