On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:58:50 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> what about files like ..asdf .asdf.hewq > > why this works is left as an exercise for the viewer. > > rday > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
