On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:07:08 -0800, Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I've tried to copy files from my home folder to do a disk upgrade. I > foolishly only copied the visible (non-dot) files. Now I'd like to copy > only the . files (recursively) but don't see what the syntax is. Anyone? I suspect you did more work doing this to not copy the dotfiles than you would have to include them. Normally you can use cp -a to copy a whole directory tree.
