OT (ish): How to copy hidden files/directories

[Bestin P. Jose]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:58:50 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > CB wrote:
> >> I can't figure out how to do this: copy (or move) all the hidden files
> >> and directories contained in one directory to another directory.
> >>
> >> Is it as embarrasingly simple as I imagine it must be?
> >
> > Last time this came up, Ulrich Drepper pointed out the
> > shopt -s dotglob
> > command.
> 
> however, that requires a special shell option that won't work if one
> is not using, say, bash.  a solution that uses only regular wildcards:
> 
> $ cp -r * .[!.]* <destdir>


what about files like    ..asdf               .asdf.hewq 

> 
> why this works is left as an exercise for the viewer.
> 
> rday
> 
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