On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:08:28PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: > chris wrote: > > cp -r $1/* $2 > > Careful, * can't usually match an infinite number of files. Indeed! Notably, dot-files (e.g., ".bashrc", ".kde/", ".gnome/", etc., in the case of one's home directory being the source ('$1' above)) would all be skipped. -bill!