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Re: DWIM feature request for cp
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Dan Hipschman |
Subject: |
Re: DWIM feature request for cp |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:35:27 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:01:52PM -0300, Roberto Rodr?guez wrote:
> Hello, I want to ask the developers what do they think about implementing a
> way to do "cp -r .* target" (copy files and directories starting with dot)
> without copying the parent directory ".." (I think that's what the user
> usually intends to do)
I did a quick search for "cp --exclude", since it seems this is really
the kind of thing that might get implemented, and didn't immediately
find anything interesting about it. However, following the first link,
I found somebody asking the same question as you, and the suggestion:
$ cp .[^.]* target
was made.