Howto Archive Including Hidden Files?


 
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Old 07-01-2007
Howto Archive Including Hidden Files?

Hi

I want to archive the following all the files and directory like listed below:

Code:
[monkfan@defiant ~]$ ls -a
.  ..  .bash_history  .bash_logout  .bash_profile  .bashrc  .emacs  .mysql_history  public_html  .viminfo

What I tried is to use the following command

Code:
[monkfan@defiant ~]$  gtar cvzf allmyfiles.tar.gz *

However when I opened that archived files. I couldn't find the hidden
files (those started with ".") like: .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc .emacs etc.

And I also tried using .* like this:
Code:
[monkfan@defiant ~]$  gtar cvzf allmyfiles.tar.gz * .*

But it also include archiving all the directories in home/ which belong to other users, which is not what I want.


How can I issue a gtar command that also include the hidden files and hidden directories solely for my private home directories?
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Old 07-01-2007
Code:
gtar cvzf allmyfiles.tar.gz .

 
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