Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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".
Good point. I just subscribed this morning, so I didn't see
that post. The solution you posted
$ cp -r * .[!.]* <destdir>
does solve that problem.
To be totally pedantic, though, ".[!.]*" won't match a file named
"..foofoo". So, for completeness, we need two patterns:
$ cp -pr .[!.]* ..?* <destdir>
- Don
