Copying a directory hierarchy

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004, Mike Jeays wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:08, Robert Huff wrote:
>> Mike Jeays writes:
>> 
>> >  How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden
>> >  files?
>> >  
>> >  "cp -rp" leaves them out.
>> 
>> 	cp -rp *
>> 	cp -rp .*
...
>This doesn't copy hidden files in lower-level directories, only in the
>top level.  Thanks for the suggestion - a good idea that doesn't quite
>do it.

My usual incantation is:

	find . -print | cpio -pdumva $destdir

Or if I know there's significant overlap

	rsync -varP ./ $destdir

Bill
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