Ubuntu – How to copy everything from USB to file system

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I have mounted the USB and have successfully accessed it. On the USB are files and directories with files within them as well as .htaccess files.

I know that the terminal can't see the .htaccess files since everything in ubuntu starting with . is hidden. However, I can see them on the GUI if I enable Show Hidden Files.

Anyways, my question is, how do I copy EVERYTHING, including the .htaccess and directories while keeping the structure intact as it is on the USB to /var/www

Thanks

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Like the comment above says, cp -r will copy it, so just run cp -r /media/<usb-name> /path/to/target

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Ubuntu – How to get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files

You can do this :

shopt -s dotglob
mv /tmp/home/rcook/* /home/rcook/

You can put

shopt -s dotglob

in your ~/.bashrc if you want it to be the default.

See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob

Another approach to copy the dot files:

mv /tmp/home/rcook/.[!.]* /home/rcook/

Don't use the pattern ..* as it matches .. (pointer to the parent directory). If there are files whose name begin with two dots (..something), also use the pattern ..?*.

Ubuntu – Copy files and directories without files content

From man cp

--attributes-only don't copy the file data, just the attributes

So , if you want to copy all folders and files that are in somedirectory

do cp -R --attributes-only somedirectory destinationdirectory

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