Re: exclude option for cp

[Richard van der Leeden]

Francky Leyn-2 wrote:
> 
> I have the following problem.
> I have DVD's with backups of multiple UNIX account.
> I now have to restore them. I do this with cp -rfv.
> What I would like is that I would be able to exclude
> local wastebaskets with directory name .scratch and
> the files in it. I would also like to be able to exclude
> files with a name *~ from the copy. I know I can do this
> with find, but it would be much more convenient if cp
> would have an option to exclude files from copying.
> Suppose this option would be triggered with -e or --exclude
> I then would be able to specify the copy as:
> cp -rvf -e '*~' -e .scratch
> 

I think this is already possible, or am I misunderstanding something?

Copying everything from dir1 to dir2:

cp -rvf . /tmp/dir2
`./file1' -> `/tmp/dir2/./file1'
`./file2' -> `/tmp/dir2/./file2'
`./file3' -> `/tmp/dir2/./file3'
`./.scratch' -> `/tmp/dir2/./.scratch'
`./.scratch/dontcopy' -> `/tmp/dir2/./.scratch/dontcopy'
`./dontcopy~' -> `/tmp/dir2/./dontcopy~'

Copying everything apart from files ending in ~, and .scratch dirs and files
therein:
cp -rvf !(*~|.scratch) /tmp/dir2
`file1' -> `/tmp/dir2/file1'
`file2' -> `/tmp/dir2/file2'
`file3' -> `/tmp/dir2/file3'

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