On Fri,25.Dec.09, 15:25:56, Glenn English wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot > > were not copied. I was simply using > > $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...] > > > > What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this? > > I always just say 'cp -a .* <destination dir>' in addition to what you > already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. > If there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of > the man page.
Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'? Regards, Andrei, always keen on keeping things as simple as possible -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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