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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to copy a directory without specific files? Post 302910737 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 27th of July 2014 09:05:20 PM
Old 07-27-2014
You should also have a look at some of the options available to the cp command in the manual.

You will need to make some decisions on what you want to do with any file links, file/directory permissions/ACLs, date/time stamps owners and groups for directories and files in the tree.

gnutar has quite a sensible set of defaults for all this stuff and the following has a good chance of doing what you want:

Code:
cd /path/to/sourcedir
tar -c -f - --ignore-case --exclude=*.wmv . | (cd /path/to/targetdir ; tar xf - )

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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