Cp All But Some Files, paramater for cp command? - Shell Programming and Scripting

allelopath · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2004

I'm creating a shell script, part of which has a cp command.So far i've got:

cp --recursive --reply=yes /development/myProgram/* /somewhere/else

I need to add something that says to not copy certain files, in this case all directories named "CVS" and files named ".project" and "project.index". I don't see an option to do this in the cp command. I suspect this can be done with grep, but a couple of attempts have failed.
How can I do this?

(Sorry if this gets posted twice, i thought i did once, but now I don't see it)

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 05-04-2004

Try this:
cd /development/myProgram/
find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o -type f ! -name .project ! -name project.index -print | xargs -I {} cp -rp {} /somewhere/else

allelopath · #3 (**permalink**) 05-04-2004

thanks, i'll give it a go

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