I am in a fix.......

I have to write a backup script to backup say Folder A.

Folder A contains n folders 1,2 ,3 .....n.

my script should copy A without folder 2 & 3.

Is there anyway I can do it without writing individual copy commands????


Please help....

So what you are really asking for is to copy all files within Folder A and only the first folder (folder 1 in your example). You need to know which folder under Folder A to copy. Why not just make to copy commands?

No,

What I am asking is to copy all files and folders in folder A other than folders 2 & 3

so the copied folder ACopy will have 1,4,5 .....n

Look into using the find command to exclude the directories that you do not want to back up. You cna create a temp dir structure containing all files and directories from the output of your find command. Backup the temp directory structure then remove it. find is by default recursive, but it supports expressions which allows quite a bit of flexibility.

The easiest soltion would be to copy the lot then remove folders 2 & 3.

Thanks All,
I am copying across and deleting!!!