Re: HOW2 copy file-tree?

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

Seems ok, but must first: `mkdir dst`

Using mc, artificially hides such absurd syntax/requirements.

Thanks,
==Chris Glur

On 12/16/15, Andrey Gursky <andrey gursky e-mail ua> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200
> chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
>
> > ... so, of course I usd mc to copy the file-tree,
> > then I noticed that mc showed:--
> > |/.dbus           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > |/.gnuzilla       |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > |/.kde            |   4096|Dec  9 17:26|
> > |/.links          |   4096|Dec 10 15:29|
> > |/.mc             |   4096|Dec 12 12:04|
> > |/.mozilla        |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > |/.pan2           |   4096|Dec 14 18:52|
> > |/.wilybak        |   4096|Dec 11 19:08|
> > |/.xine           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > | .Xauthority     |    103|Dec  9 16:39|
> > | .bash_history   |     43|Dec 11 11:07|
> > | .blackboxrc     |   1425|Dec 11 17:52|
> > | .servera~h.13990|     54|Dec  9 16:39|
> > | .xinitrc        |    530|Dec  9 16:39|
> > | KogiRootDir     |    931|Dec 12 12:04|
> >
> >    and then I remembered that instead of copying the whole tree, there was
> > only
> > a file: KogiRootDir     |    931.
> >
> > It seems that the problem is related to:
> >   `ls /*` does NOT show <dotted Files> by default;
> > whereas mc  is much better.
> >
> > Still I want to know how to do this simple task as a command-line.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> to show really *a*ll files, you can use ls -a.
>
> To copy all files you can use:
> cp -r src/* src/.[^.]* src/..?* dst/
> which means all files not beginning with a dot and all files beginning with
> a dot but not a .. file (which is a parent directory) and all files starting
> with ..
> By the way, you'd want to use -a argument to preserve file attributes (mode,
> ownership, timestamps, links,..).
>
> Regards,
> Andrey