On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Chuck_Sterling wrote:
CB wrote:
I can't figure out how to do this: copy (or move) all the hidden files and directories contained in one directory to another directory.
Is it as embarrasingly simple as I imagine it must be?
Go to the source directory, then
find . -print | cpio -pmud <dest>
If you want it verbose, use
find . -print | cpio -pmudv <dest>
These preserve permissions and such during the copy...
when i teach my intro linux course, this is one of the exercises i assign:
1) using only the regular shell wildcards, come up with a way to match *everything* in the current directory (files, dirs, hidden, non-hidden), with the exception of the two entries "." and "..".
and the answer is ... ?
rday
p.s. this is command independent, nothing to do with "find". it's strictly a pattern-matching exercise using wildcards.
