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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:

> I just subscribed this morning, so I didn't see
> that post.  The solution you posted
>
>      $ cp -r * .[!.]* <destdir>
>
> does solve that problem.
>
> To be totally pedantic, though, ".[!.]*" won't match a file named
> "..foofoo".  So, for completeness, we need two patterns:
>
>      $ cp -pr .[!.]* ..?* <destdir>

dang, i had never considered that before.  colour me sheepish.

rday