On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > This should be simple but I'm not finding it so. > I want to cp every file and directory that starts with a '.' > I'm trying to backup all the rc files/dirs on my home dir and just can't > work it out. Any help appreciated!
the pattern that will match all hidden files/directories is .[!.]*, and you want to copy recursively, so you could do $ cp -a .[!.]* <name-of-dest-dir> rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
