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Old 1st December 2022
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Your file names appear to have leading dots, and that's atypical: on Unix-based platforms, files with leading dots are considered "hidden" in that some commands, such as ls(1), will not show them without the addition of the -a option. Perhaps, then, you have successfully copied files but do not see them with ls(1) because you are not using -a.


If using $ ls -a is not the solution, then more information will be needed. The use of script(1) to record a console session might shed more light on what is going on.
On going into my OpenBSD system and the destination to which I'd already copied these files yesterday (/etc/openvpn) to try this new
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ls -a
command it just reports
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. ..
. What does this mean? Does it mean there's nothing in the directory? Or does it mean there's a couple of hidden files?
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