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That's a bad solution as it omits hidden files. Have a look at this article: http://www.sant-media.co.uk/2010/05/lin ... o-another/

The solution for just copying the contents with cp: This actually copies the ./ directory to new/./ but as new/./ is the same as new/ it does exactly what we want.

For mv it's way more complicated involving find as outlined in the article.

Shador, that's an extremely helpful link. I'd forgotten about hidden files, but never came across the /. trick.