copying files

[ColonelPenguin]

I do a nightly backup of important files to a second drive. Does anyone know if there is a way to skip over hidden files? Thanks.

[strikeforce]

Not without just auto deleting them e.g.

rm -rf ./.*

[ibbo]

Depends what you back up with.

I use rsync as my tool of choice which comes with the flag --exclude

so rync -avp --exclude='.*' from to: should do it.

Ibbo