HOW2 copy file-tree?

[Eric Gillespie]

To show all files for a directory at the commandline, use "ls -l", to show
all files for a directory and below, use "ls -laR". I hope this helps. The
man pages for the system are usually installed, so simply doing "man ls"
should show you that. Ditto for cp. Also, for a blow-by-blow description,
running "info cp" may also help (hit the q key to exit info).

Regards, BrickViking

On 15 December 2015 at 06:26, chris glur <crglur at 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.
>
> == TIA.
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