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for file in $(ls -a $1)
do
    cp $file ~/dir-2 
done

cp: omitting directory `.'
cp: omitting directory `..'
cp: cannot stat `abc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `def': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file1': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file2': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file3': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file4': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file5': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file6': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ghi': No such file or directory

for file in $(ls -a $1)
do
     cp $1/$file dir-2
done

  1 #! /bin/bash
  2 
  3 dest=$1
  4 for i in `ls -a1`;do
  5    [[ -d $i ]] && cp -r $i $dest && continue
  6    cp $i $dest
  7 done