On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Mike Noble wrote:
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 03:47, 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?
cp .* /newdirectory
That will copy all hidden files (files that start with .) to a new
directory.
You can combine that with other options of cp. Check the man for cp page
for those.
This is a really bad example. .* will also copy . and ..
If you want to make sure that you only copy the dot files
in a directory you want to use the command:
cp -Ra .??* /newdirectory
and what if you have a hidden file (or directory) named ".a"?
rday
