copy only non-hidden files

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 05:06:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:56:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 23:40 -0300, Duane Whitty wrote:  
>>> Wouldn't cp /home/duane/*/* /home/someone/ result in my .gnupg
>>> directory being copied?    
>>
>>I mentioned "globbing"
>>
>>  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=shell+globbing
>>
>>What do you get, if you run
>>
>>  ls -d /home/*/*
>>
>>or
>>
>>  ls -d /home/*/*/*
>>
>>?  
>
>
>FWIW
>
>You probably did not mean cp /home/duane/*/* , but cp /home/duane/* ,
>right?

However, if you really meant cp /home/duane/*/* , since I mentioned
levels of "asterisks", then remember that I also mentioned a sane
hierarchical file system. Do you expect levels of hidden items in $HOME?