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...ectory". Without a trailing slash it means "copy the directory". but both of these also update the permissions of the dest directory to those of the source directory. I've tried other excludes (/./, ./) but cannot keep rsync from modifying the dest directory permission. rsync -lptg ~me/source/* ~me/dest/ does almost what I want, it copies just the files, with permissions, and doesn't change the permissions on the dest directory, but it doesn't copy hidden files. The only way I've found to get all the files this way is with two calls to rsync: rsync -lptg ~me/sou...