On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. > If you e.g. "cp *" you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all > inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. "rm *", you'll delete all > files, including hidden files.
The command "cp *" will not recurse into directories without -r or -a to enable recursion. The "*" is expanded by the shell and is passed as arguments to the command. This means that "*" will expand to the same set of files and directories, regardless of the command in front of it. In bash, you can enable globbing of hidden files with "shopt -s dotglob". dotglob If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname expansion. Regards, -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAD758RgGmOqcRC48iBfgUN7RzjwKhep=mdte6mo97pttvum...@mail.gmail.com