Copy multiple files that begin with .

I thought all you had to do was place a \ in front of the .file

I tried this command:

sudo cp \.* test-folder

and it copied all the non directories into the test folder. For some reason it didn't copy the directories.

I then tried:

sudo cp -R \.* test-folder

but it still failed...perhaps someone else can chime in and tell us the mistake.

HTH

Wildcards is one of the topics in this Unix FAQ (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=40648)