Copying hidden files

[Nils Kassube]

John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
> > That's why you should tar them first. Saves space, preserves
> > permissions, no filename encoding problems.
> 
> tar doesn't compress

But compression isn't the only way to save space:

~/ > mkdir /tmp/a
~/ > cd /tmp/a
/tmp/a/ > for n in {100..200};do echo >a$n;done
/tmp/a/ > du -sh .
408K    .
/tmp/a/ > tar cf a.tar a*
/tmp/a/ > ls -l a.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 nils nils 112640 Nov 20 15:46 a.tar
/tmp/a/ >


Nils