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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic Unix cp command help Post 302607204 by scotty85 on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 01:31:43 AM
Old 03-14-2012
Error Basic Unix cp command help

I am new to unix so this is probably a pretty basic question.

I am trying to write several commands on one line that creates a directory called bf in the current directory, then copy all files within that directory and any subdirectories, that do not start with the letter c to the new bf folder.
When it copies the files in the sub directory it must also copy the folder, but copying only the files within it that dont start with c.

so far ive got this which copies everything but im not really sure what to do from here...
Code:
mkdir bf | cp -r * bf

thanks

Last edited by Franklin52; 03-14-2012 at 05:02 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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