This looked to be quite easy with tar using the -X (--exclude-from) option until the filename (*.tif) came into it! GNU stuff does seem to print some odd messages!
If your source directory has only *.tif files, then I'd create a exclude.list that looks like this:
archive
And then:
Otherwise, and I'm too tired to argue with wierd GNU messages...
Hi,
I need a command that to copy files from others and to keep files' ownership.
Example: I copy file.txt from users "abc" to my local, and file.txt is own by user "abc" in local.
Thanks in advance! (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to copy a directory named Ec1 to another directory named Ec2, newly created. But Ec1 has a bunch of *.dat files and many many other kinds of files. Whle creating Ec2, I selectively want to omit the *.dat files since they are huge files of the order of 100 MBs and there are... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have the below command running in unix
find /dev/data/ -name "*.*" -exec cp -R {} "/isdev/data//history" \;
This command will copy the files from /dev/data/ to /isdev/data//history and will not throw even if there is no files in source.
But if i modify the path from... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have to copy *.so shared objects filtering out the files having *.debug extension and if symbolic link is present copy only the links excluding the source (i.e) if it is a symbolic link then it should not de-reference the source file. For this I used the "-P" option, but I am not sure,... (4 Replies)
I have two files, these have to be selectively merged into two other files. In addition there will require to be a edit to the last field, where the date format is changed.
The first file is a csv file with around 300k lines the data is now nearly 20 years old and I have been asked to move this... (7 Replies)
I have folder ABC and files in ABC are links.
I want to create the same ABC folder in different path and copy the actual files from source ABC dir.
Can anyone provide command for this?
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
HI All,
I am using a windows RDP machine . from the RDP i am opening a putty session of a unix server.i have outlook installed in the windows RDP machine, and if i get a file inthe outlook mail how can i copy it to a location in the putty unix machine. Please help me!!!! (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a file name abc.xml in my windows machine at the location c:\ytr\abc.xml
which I want to place at the unix box machine inside cde directory.. at the following location that is /opt/app/cde/
now the credentials of unix box are
abc345 -->(dummyid)
ftyiu88--->(dummy passwd)
... (4 Replies)
I need a UNIX ksh script that counts the number of files in directory, if the files exceed 20 files, then email results. I want the script to run every hour.. I don't have access to cron.. I'm some what new to UNIX. Windows guy all my career.. this is what I have so far..
#!/bin/ksh
# count.sh
... (5 Replies)
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cp
cp(1) General Commands Manual cp(1)Name
cp - copy file data
Syntax
cp [ -f ] [ -i ] [ -p ] file1 file2
cp [ -f ] [ -i ] [ -p ] [ -r ] file... directory
cp [ -f ] [ -i ] [ -p ] [ -r ] directory... directory
Description
The command copies file1 onto file2. The mode and owner of file2 are preserved if it already existed; the mode of file1 is used otherwise.
Note that the command will not copy a file onto itself.
In the second form, one or more files are copied into the directory with their original file names.
In the third form, one or more source directories are copied into the destination directory with their original file names.
Options-f Forces existing destination pathnames to be removed before copying, without prompting for confirmation. The -i option is ignored if
the -f option is specified.
-i Prompts user with the name of file whenever the copy will cause an old file to be overwritten. A yes answer will cause to continue.
Any other answer will prevent it from overwriting the file.
-p Preserves (duplicates) in the copies the modification time, access time, file mode, user ID, and group ID as allowed by the permis-
sions of the source files, ignoring the present umask.
-r Copies directories. Entire directory trees, including their subtrees and the individual files they contain, are copied to the speci-
fied destination directory. The directory, its subtrees, and the individual files retain their original names. For example, to copy
the directory including all of its subtrees and files, into the directory enter the following command:
cp -r reports news
See Alsocat(1), pr(1), mv(1)cp(1)