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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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