cp -r without hidden files

You can use rsync:

rsync -av --exclude=".*" src dest

linux bash cp

You can do

cp -r SRC_DIR/* DEST_DIR

to exclude all .files and .dirs in the SRC_DIR level, but still it would copy any hidden files in the next level of sub-directories.

linux bash cp

rsync has "-C" option

Example:

rsync -vazC  dir1 dir2

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