Shell Programming and Scripting

i have 255 files in a directory named 000po.k thru 255po.k
and I want to copy all files except 3: exclude 000po.k, 166po.k,168po.k

I know the long way around it copying these files, but am looking for a shorter way of doing this:

my old approach:

# copy 001po.k thru 009po.k to target directory
cp $SRC/0[0-9][1-9]po.k $TGT

# copy 100po.k thru 159po.k
cp $SRC/1[0-5][0-9]po.k $TGT

... etc etc etc ...

my new approach is to exclude the files I don't want to copy, but
this isn't working for me.

cp $SRC/!(000po.k|166po.k|168po.k) $TGT

syntax error near unexpected token `('


TIA for your help.

this would only work if extglob is set using

Code:

shopt -s extglob

I did activate this. Do I need to activate it within the script as well?

I am not sure the reason for the syntax error even though
shopt -s extglob had been used. In the end I used this command
as an alternative to 'cp' and it seems to do the trick.

Thanks Reborg for trying. You have helped me much in the past.

ACCEPTED ANSWER:
rsync -avz --exclude=000po.k --exclude=166po.k --exclude=168po.k $SRC/*.k $TGT/