Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> I always just say 'cp -a .* <destination dir>' in addition to what you
>> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period.
>
> Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'?
Because '*' doesn't get the invisible files, and Merciadri'd already done the visibles. As someone else suggested, 'cp -a * .* <dest>' would do it all in one step.
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