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add note regarding Tar and ./*

Oliver Gerlich
2017-08-03 11:16:07 +02:00
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@@ -21,4 +21,6 @@ Using `./*` will instead cause the glob to be expanded into `./-f`, which no pro
Similarly, `--` by convention indicates the end of options, and nothing after it will be treated like flags (except for some programs possibly still special casing `-` as e.g. stdin).
Note that changing `*` to `./*` in GNU Tar parameters will add `./` prefix to path names in the created archive. This may cause subtle problems (eg. to search for a specific file in archive, the `./` prefix must be specified as well). So using `-- *` is a safer fix for GNU Tar commands.
For more information, see "[Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it Correctly](http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html)".