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.
any help?
Thanks
Maybe tar could do this with the --exclude option (not sure if it works with
directories), using the typical pipe to extract to a destination on the fly.
Or with cpio:
find some/dir | grep -v some/dir/to/exclude | cpio -pdm /dest
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