On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:15 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Monday 22 January 2007 15:07, Dave Stevens wrote: > > > 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? > > In case the filenames of the dot files have a length of 3 or more you can use: > > cp .??* target > > Regards, > Till > > Wouldn't TAR manage this better? or perhaps dd? Regards, Les H
