On Tue, Dec 21, 2004, Mike Jeays wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:08, Robert Huff wrote:
>> Mike Jeays writes:
>>
>> > How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden
>> > files?
>> >
>> > "cp -rp" leaves them out.
>>
>> cp -rp *
>> cp -rp .*
...
>This doesn't copy hidden files in lower-level directories, only in the
>top level. Thanks for the suggestion - a good idea that doesn't quite
>do it.
My usual incantation is:
find . -print | cpio -pdumva $destdir
Or if I know there's significant overlap
rsync -varP ./ $destdir
Bill
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