Copying hidden files with cp?

[Angel Tsankov]

How can I copy all the files in a directory (incl. hidden files
and excl. . and ..) with cp alone?

[Moe Trin]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.questions, in article

Post by Angel Tsankov
How can I copy all the files in a directory (incl. hidden files
and excl. . and ..) with cp alone?

Why would you want to? What-ever. Use the correct regular expressions

cp * .[0-z]* /destination/directory

[compton ~]$ whatis regex
regex (7) - POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
[compton ~]$

Old guy

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:56:27 +0200, Angel Tsankov

Post by Angel Tsankov
How can I copy all the files in a directory (incl. hidden files
and excl. . and ..) with cp alone?

cp -a directory destination
copies the entire directory including hidden files and subdirectories.