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Old 05-26-2009
soliberus soliberus is offline
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coping files, need to exclude certain files

I have two directories that contain data files. I would like to create a script that would copy all data files (*.dbf) from these directories to another location, except for 4 specific files.

How do I exclude those files from my cp command?