Hidden files

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Mon Feb 7 19:55:26 MST 2011


On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:04 -0500, Y z wrote:
> Wondering why rsync isn't copying hidden files. I thought (google told me so) that rsync doesn't treat dot files specially.

> command: 
> # rsync -azPv * 10.1.1.1:/u2/ubuntu/

Rsync doesn't treat them specially, but your shell wildcard does.
Consider passing "." as the source instead.

-- 
Matt



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