On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, James Wilkinson 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?
Last time this came up, Ulrich Drepper pointed out the shopt -s dotglob command.
however, that requires a special shell option that won't work if one is not using, say, bash. a solution that uses only regular wildcards:
$ cp -r * .[!.]* <destdir>
why this works is left as an exercise for the viewer.
rday
