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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic Unix cp command help Post 302607420 by methyl on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 11:08:36 AM
Old 03-14-2012
The professional approach is to use "cpio" not "cp -r". It will preserve permissions and create subdirectories as required.

Code:
mkdir bf
find . -type f ! -name c\* -print | cpio -pdumv bf

The use of ! to mean "not" is described in "man find".

The combination of "find" and "cpio" is described in the "man" pages for both commands.

As others have realised, this command will only work while the subdirectory "bf" is empty. If you run the command a second time it will of course find files in the subdirectory "bf".
 

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cpio.h(3HEAD)                                                         Headers                                                        cpio.h(3HEAD)

NAME
cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values SYNOPSIS
#include <cpio.h> DESCRIPTION
Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows: Name Description C_IRUSR Read by owner C_IWUSR Write by owner C_IXUSR Execute by owner C_IRGRP Read by group C_IWGRP Write by group C_IXGRP Execute by group C_IROTH Read by others C_IWOTH Write by others C_IXOTH Execute by others C_ISUID Set user ID C_ISGID Set group ID C_ISVTX On directories, restricted deletion flag C_ISDIR Directory C_ISFIFO FIFO C_ISREG Regular file C_ISBLK Block special C_ISCHR Character special C_ISCTG Reserved C_ISLNK Symbolic link C_ISSOCK Socket The header defines the symbolic constant: MAGIC "070707" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 cpio.h(3HEAD)
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