On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 18:27 -0400, yonas Abraham wrote: > i want to copy one directory with big sub directory and files on it > with the exception of some of its sub directories. > > I usually just do cp -r A B, and go to B and delete the once that I > don't need it. But this becomes expensive as the size of the subdir > gets bigger and bigger. > > I was hopping something like cp -r --exclude=C A B, to copy dir A to B > with the exception of dir C which is a sub dir of A. But man cp, > didn't give me such thing. You might try using rsync as it does support an "exclude" option: rsync -av --exclude=A/C A/ B See "man rsync" for details and pay attention to the FILTER section. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
