copying all files except those with certain extension
Hi,
I have a root directory which has a big number of other subdirectories and contains a big number of files. I want to copy all these files and directories to another folder except files with certain extension, say .txt, files - how may I do this?
But cpio is for archived files. I just want to copy all files and folders from source to destination, keeping the oder, without files with extension .exe, say. I do have some tar files in the source directory but I want to copy them as they are.
Thanks for this thread and for this forum. I loved it the first time I browsed it.
I tried Annihilannic reply and it worked like a charm. I tried to do this, but it did not work:
It did not work. I think I am missing an option or something, is there a solution for this situation?
That doesn't work because scp does not accept a list of filenames from standard input.
To copy the files to another system it's better to convert the files into a stream format of some kind, such as a cpio or tar archive, pipe them through an ssh connection, and then extract them from the stream at the other end, e.g.
Note that I used cd to change into the respective directories so that the paths stored in the cpio archive are relative, not full paths.
Hi,
I have multiple files that read:
Asa.txt
Bad.txt
Gnu.txt
And I want to rename them using awk to
Asa_ddmmyytt.txt and so on
...
If there is a single command or more efficient executable please share!
Thanks! (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to fetch the files based on .done file and display the .csv files and Wil take .csv files for processing.
1.I need to display the .done files from the directory.
2.next i need to search for the .Csv files based on .done file.then move .csv files for the one directory
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Hi
I Have a directory and i have some files below
abc.txt
abc.gif
gtee.txt
ghod.pid
umni.log
unmi.tar
How can use glob function to grep abc files , i have created a variable "text" and i assigned value as "abc", please suggest me how can we use glob.glob( ) to get the output as below... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I know that to list files with no extension, we can use..
ls -1 | grep -v "\."
And to list .prog files, we can use..
ls -1 *.prog
or
ls -1 | grep '.prog$' (4 Replies)
trying to copy all the files without extension then add
"*.txt" but its not working is there any other way and i do not want to use
cpio -vdump just want to use copy command
FROM=/usr/share/doc
TO=/aleza/doc
#the follow function copies all the files without extensions
call(){
cd $FROM... (3 Replies)
Let's say I wanna Delete all the files of a certain extension exept one.
How do I do it?
I know, if you wanna delete them all is with the command:
find ~/ -type f -iname '*.txt' -exec rm {} ~/ ';'
But If I want to keep an Specific file? Let's say I wanna keep 'Log.txt'. How do I do it? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using scp to copy a certain directory over the network. This folder contain some files that I am not interested in. My question is; is it possible to copy files of certain extension only, keeping the same directory hierarchy as it is (that is sub-folders)?
Thanks (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I am doing this for svn patch making. I got the list of files to make the patch. I have the list in a file with path of all the files.
To Do
From Directory : /myproject/MainDir
To Directory : /myproject/data
List of files need to copy is in the file: /myproject/filesList.txt
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I am userB and have a dir
/temp1
This dir is owned by me.
How do I recursively copy files from another users's dir userA?
I need to preserve the original user who created files, original group information, original create date, mod date etc.
I tried
cp -pr /home/userA/* .
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I am brand new to hp unix systems. I see some files without extension on this system. If I type name of the file it shows me so many detail but does not take me back to command prompt. What are these files and how do I come back to command prompt? Please help (1 Reply)