[ale] tar question

[dsj at sylvester.dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

I'm experimenting with tar, which I should know much better than
I do.  :-)

What's the best way to include ".filenames" without including
"..", which will include the everything in the parent directory?

So far I've been going with:

tar cvfz tarball.tar.gz dirname/.* --exclude '..'

I want to include subdirectories and their dotfiles.  Is there a
better way to do it?

TIA!

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