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12-27-2012
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Expansion within cp
I have a bunch of files which I need to transfer to another location... and some of these I need to skip. For e.g. let us say the files are: Code:
cust_abc.dat cust_xyz.dat cust_def.dat and I only want to move the first two. I want to do something like: Code:
cp cust_[/abc|xyz/].dat <target> which doesn't work due to bad syntax. Is there some way of doing this without involving grep and xargs? I would like to do it with a single command if possible... |
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12-27-2012
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Based on your pattern attempt, I assume bash if you are excluding one filename Code:
# set extglob on -- shopt will show it's status shopt -s extglob cp !(def_cust).dat /somewhere The not (!) operator means do not match. You can have multiple pipe-delimited patterns See the section on 3.5.8.1 Pattern Matching here: Bash Reference Manual You may want to go with another pattern/way. |
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