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vendtagain 12-25-2011 06:41 PM
scp only unhidden files recursively
 
How do you use scp to recursively copy unhidden files? All hidden files are being copied when I use it, and I don't see anything in the man pages to prevent this.

jhwilliams 12-25-2011 07:11 PM
I would use rsync instead, with the --exclude option.

Code:
rsync -av --exclude '.*' src/ dest


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