exclude directory with cp

hampel · 12-11-2003, 10:54 AM

Hello,

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

Any ideas?

regards

trickykid · 12-11-2003, 11:04 AM

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>

andrewlkho · 12-11-2003, 12:05 PM

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.

Daantje · 06-04-2009, 11:59 AM

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