Copy hidden system files from admin to client?

I'm preparing for a large rollout of Macs and one of our apps hides its license file with a . in front of the file name. Rather than type in the serial number 100 times, I'd like to simply blast out the license file via ARD to same relative location, but of course it's not visible to the OS/ARD. The containing folder is not hidden, it's just a single file that needs to be copied.
Is there any way to do this, perhaps by Unix cp command? How do you tell the remote computer to source the file from my computer, since the command is run locally on the remote machine. (Whew.)
Thank you.

Lots of people are unaware of those extra options in the Finder Search. The other one that's commonly needed but not known about is the option to search system files, which is also under "other". You may want to check the "In Menu" box for those two so that they are available directly from the pulldown menu; they're both needed pretty often for many people.
Happy to have been of help.
Cheers.

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