exclude directory with cp
 

Hello,

I want to exclude an directory from copying.
cp --exclude ... does not work.

Any ideas?

regards

Looking at the man page there is no exclude option: http://man.linuxquestions.org/index....ction=0&type=2

Why not just delete afterwards?

cp -R <directory/filename> | rm -rf <directory-filename>

Or, if the directory happens to be very large, and so you don't want to waste cpu resources copying it just to delete it, then move the directory up a level, which won't take up much time, and then copy it, then replace it.

Or use rsync to copy, it does have an --exclude option.