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/ 3 Years ago, mon, june 21, 2021, 2:04:10
It works fine when I copy all hidden files using regex:
cp -r source/.[^.]* destination/
and it just copies exactly files beggining with a dot . .
However, I found the following works also:
cp -r source/.[^.]* destination/
In regular expression, doesn't dot . mean "any singular character"? So why does not the second command copy regular files (those not hidden) ?
Why is the dot . interpreted literally in cp command?
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