Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:
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>
dang, i had never considered that before. colour me sheepish.
Well, in ~15 years of *nix, I've never had a problem with ".??*", so your post got me thinking a little harder about corner cases. ;-)
- Don
