Copying hidden files

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 07:40:21 UTC 2009


>> throw it all on a thumb drive :)
>
> Not a good idea (for dot files)! If you do it this way you will lose all your set 'permissions'
> and when you copy them back to your /home you will have problems with kde starting.
>

That's why you should tar them first. Saves space, preserves
permissions, no filename encoding problems.

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