On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a huge multi level directory of legally ripped music. I ripped > my CDs as flac and mp3. > > How do I easily copy just the mp3 files onto another drive ? Ie, ignore > the flac files and copy only the mp3 files ? I want to keep the > directory structure intact. > > The main directory is Music. In Music is BandA, BandB, BandC, etc. > Inside BandA is Record1, Record2, Record3, etc. > Inside Record 1 is song1.flac, song1.mp3, song2.flac, song2.mp3, etc. > > I want to preserve the directory structure. I feel a script coming on. > Am I right ? Look at the man page for rsync. Basically a command like rsync -avu --exclude='*.flac' oldDir/ newDir/ should do what you want, that is copy the contents of oldDir into newDir preserving the directory structure, and it'll preserve ownership and timestamps as well. HTH Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
