I’m so baffled I had to ask – why this behaviour?

cd /var/www/html
tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* api/* mobile/*

I do this, and the resulting package doesn’t include a couple of hidden files – api/.htaccess and admin/.htaccess. However…

cd /var/www/html
tar czf ~/package.tgz *

This time the hidden .htaccess files are there.

Does anybody have enlightenment to offer as to why?

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    7·
    22 hours ago

    Ah yes, one of the biggest bugs-later-turned-design-mistakes of UNIX. This is not tar, this is your shell; you always need to use both * and .* for a wildcard to match all files in directory - e.g. tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* admin/.* api/* api/.* mobile/* mobile/.*

    • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Thanks - this is what I did with a ‘you had one job’ look beaming at the terminal after realising the hidden files were missed and indeed it did the trick.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Could this be made easier by setting globstar or dotglob options, to include hidden files but not try to grab . and … Directory files