On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:03:20 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: > >> cp -a ~/.* > >Not simple. If you do that you'll try to copy over the parent tree due to > >'..' (that is satisfy your code) represents parent and '.' represents > >current folder. > > Not simple, but how about: > > cp -a ~/.[!.]* . chsh -s /bin/zsh cp -a ~/.* ;-)