Re: Help with command - cp

[Mathias Bauer <mbauer@gmx.org>]

* Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 23:58 (+0100):

> On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote:

> > * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+0000):
> >
> > > > cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B
> > >
> > > If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a
> > > file called B
> >
> > No, obviously not.
> >
> > [...]
>
> It does if there's only one file in A and B does not exist.
>
>   $ mkdir A; echo HI >> A/foo
>   $ cp -a A/* B
>   $ cat B
>   HI

Yes, but ... come on, that's a rather trivial shell expansion!
By the way, don't you consider it a little bit strange to change
the original problem conditions *afterwards*?

* Lisi Reisz wrote on Sun, 26 Jan 2014, at 14:26 (+0000):

> I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to
> dirB.  I want to exclude all hidden files.

Read ... file*S*.

Regards,
Mathias