Seems ok, but must first: `mkdir dst` Using mc, artificially hides such absurd syntax/requirements.
Thanks, ==Chris Glur On 12/16/15, Andrey Gursky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200 > chris glur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... so, of course I usd mc to copy the file-tree, >> then I noticed that mc showed:-- >> |/.dbus | 4096|Dec 9 17:25| >> |/.gnuzilla | 4096|Dec 9 17:25| >> |/.kde | 4096|Dec 9 17:26| >> |/.links | 4096|Dec 10 15:29| >> |/.mc | 4096|Dec 12 12:04| >> |/.mozilla | 4096|Dec 9 17:25| >> |/.pan2 | 4096|Dec 14 18:52| >> |/.wilybak | 4096|Dec 11 19:08| >> |/.xine | 4096|Dec 9 17:25| >> | .Xauthority | 103|Dec 9 16:39| >> | .bash_history | 43|Dec 11 11:07| >> | .blackboxrc | 1425|Dec 11 17:52| >> | .servera~h.13990| 54|Dec 9 16:39| >> | .xinitrc | 530|Dec 9 16:39| >> | KogiRootDir | 931|Dec 12 12:04| >> >> and then I remembered that instead of copying the whole tree, there was >> only >> a file: KogiRootDir | 931. >> >> It seems that the problem is related to: >> `ls /*` does NOT show <dotted Files> by default; >> whereas mc is much better. >> >> Still I want to know how to do this simple task as a command-line. > > Hi Chris, > > to show really *a*ll files, you can use ls -a. > > To copy all files you can use: > cp -r src/* src/.[^.]* src/..?* dst/ > which means all files not beginning with a dot and all files beginning with > a dot but not a .. file (which is a parent directory) and all files starting > with .. > By the way, you'd want to use -a argument to preserve file attributes (mode, > ownership, timestamps, links,..). > > Regards, > Andrey > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
