Ubuntu : I surprised after finding some data in my pen drive on ubuntu. I was copied folder prefixed of dot( "." [e.g] .m2) from my window laptop. But it was missing when plugged ubuntu. I am just confident with what I have been copied. So, I thought of finding it with google as ".folder in ubuntu".
I found a link,
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/explain-linux-unix-dot-files/
"A dot file is nothing but a configuration file usually stored in users home directory."
from the above line I got the nice information that ubuntu storing all the configuration data inside the .file and .folder
E.g to view the .folders
$ ls -a
$ ls -ld .*
$ ls -a | grep '^\.'
But here the point I don’t want to last my folder which is copied already.So I chooses to go with terminal (command prompt). He never pushed me down.
$cd .m2
Using the above command I able to be inside the .m2 . So the problem solved, with coping the data from the current directory.
$ls
output:
repository
The $ls command shown me the subdirectories of current path.
$cp -r repository ../
after using the copy command I got the subdirectory outside of the .m2 folder.
Note: I used the -r argument for the copy command because my subdirectory have some more subdirectory inside.
