[Alpine-info] Re: transferring .pinerc, etc.

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:40:01 -0700, David Morris wrote:


> Worst case, use tar to bundle up what you need and scp or CDROM it

> between machines.



> cd ~

> tar -czf /tmp/porta.tgz .

> 

> will gobble everything in your home directory (and below)... into the

> gziped tarball. dot files are a tad tricky in that normal shell globbing

> tends to ignore them, etc.


[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ tar -czf /tmp/porta.tgz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ mkdir /tmp/porta.tgz
[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ tar -czf /tmp/porta.tgz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$  tar -czf /tmp/porta.tgz .
tar: /tmp/porta.tgz: Cannot open: Is a directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ cd /tmp
[btth at Hbsk2 tmp]$ ls
btth-2ujtph  btth-vle7re                           plugtmp
btth-3crg63  gnome-system-monitor.btth.2600916810  plugtmp-1
btth-7o837l  kde-btth                              plugtmp-2
btth-gc83bp  keyring-EBzzTq                        porta.tgz
btth-icmcdo  keyring-GQ6uTL                        pulse-68PIlxz9ltQG
btth-jvqsjd  keyring-KZFiH9                        pulse-7oxqZrJDH0sq
btth-l4n50h  keyring-uhDGP7                        pulse-btth
btth-mpjsqp  ksocket-btth                          pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
btth-rio27k  Model-T-1                             pulse-root
btth-s25dmh  orbit-btth                            sound-
juicer.btth.2149397850
btth-sg7vet  orbit-gdm                             virtual-btth.1So2MW
btth-tkgm92  pdfdownload                           virtual-btth.h7S4fB
[btth at Hbsk2 tmp]$ cd porta.tgz
[btth at Hbsk2 porta.tgz]$ ls
[btth at Hbsk2 porta.tgz]$ rm *.*
rm: cannot remove `*.*': No such file or directory
[btth at Hbsk2 porta.tgz]$ cd /tmp
[btth at Hbsk2 tmp]$ rmdir porta.tgz
[btth at Hbsk2 tmp]$ cd
[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ tar -czf /tmp/porta.tgz .

	-- and there it hangs.

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.