Looked it over and over in the search engines but got no answer. Does it have a switch to do this? Would zip do? And a bonus question (lol~) for you: what's .alias for? Thanks!
Here's a quick way to do this: Instead of compressing in public_html (ie: tar zcpf *), do this instead: tar zcpf /home/user/public_html.tgz /home/user/public_html/ This will include all .files and all files, in the public_html directory .alias is usually an environment or alias storage file. It is typically environment specific, so may not work in all shells . True geeks store things in more than one file though, heh