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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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DH_LINK(1)							     Debhelper								DH_LINK(1)

NAME

       dh_link - create symlinks in package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_link [debhelperoptions] [-A] [-Xitem] [sourcedestination...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_link is a debhelper program that creates symlinks in package build directories.

       dh_link accepts a list of pairs of source and destination files. The source files are the already existing files that will be symlinked
       from. The destination files are the symlinks that will be created. There must be an equal number of source and destination files specified.

       Be sure you do specify the full filename to both the source and destination files (unlike you would do if you were using something like
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FILES

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OPTIONS

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