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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To copy everything except 2 files Post 302244670 by otheus on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 11:19:00 AM
Old 10-08-2008
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Several ways. In ksh and bash you can use
Code:
cp !(foo|bar) /my/destination/dir

to exclude files named "foo" and "bar".

Otherwise, you can do something like this:
Code:
echo cp `/bin/ls -1 . |grep -v "^foo$" | grep -v "^bar$" ` /my/destination/dir

There are more elegant and faster ways, but I'm not sure about portability. Also, this will pick up directory names, but rm will not remove them. Finally, when you are sure it's what you want to do, remove the "echo".

If your directory is really large, you'll need to use "xargs":
Code:
 ls -1 |grep -v ^foo$ | grep -v ^bar$ |xargs -i sh -c "test -f {} && echo cp {} /my/destination/dir "

This last one actually takes care to only remove files, and not hardlinks, sockets, directories, etc. Remove the "echo" to actually execute the copy.

Finally, there's always find:
Code:
 find  . -maxdepth 1 -type f \! \( -name foo -o -name bar -o -name foo*bar \) -exec echo cp "{}" /my/destination/dir ";"

Once again, this only touches files. You can make it completely recurse all directories by removing "maxdepth". Again, remove the "echo" to actually do it.
Last edited by otheus; 10-08-2008 at 12:21 PM.. Reason: oops you wanted to copy, not remove. put first example in code tags.
 

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gnomevfs-copy

gnomevfs-copy(1)						   User Commands						  gnomevfs-copy(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-copy - copy a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-copy source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-copy is obsolete.  It has been superseded by gvfs-copy.  See gvfs-copy(1).

       gnomevfs-copy copies a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI	       Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Copying a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example% gnomevfs-copy http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-copy  Executable to copy a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Obsolete Volatile 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1), gvfs-copy(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.11							    14 May 2008 						  gnomevfs-copy(1)
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