On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:
To move only hidden (dot-) files/folders to another directory...
# cp -pr .??* newdir
Why use ".??*" ... * the initial "." indicates a 'hidden' file (or dot-file in Unix parlance) * the "??" match at least two characters ... this keeps the pattern from matching ".." which is the parent-directory * the "*" match any number (from zero to a-lot!) of characters
which, as i pointed out earlier, won't pick up a file named ".a".
rday
