===== rsync ==

Is a utility for synchronizing two sets of files.

It has many uses but one thing its good for is recursively copying files from one location to another, including dotfiles.  (This seems hard to do with ''cp''.)

[[https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/recursively-cp-all-directories-files-and-hidden-files-808403/| From]]:

<code>
rsync -av <src> <dest>
</code>