Excluding a directory when copying

Woodsman · 10-29-2005, 04:05 AM

How do I copy everything in a directory but exclude one or more subdirectories?

For example, suppose I wanted to cp /etc/*, but I wanted to exclude /etc/rc.d?

Thanks again.

trickykid · 10-29-2005, 09:30 AM

I don't think cp has an exclude, you could use rsync to do this though..

rsync --exclude rc.d -av /etc/* /other/location

Woodsman · 10-30-2005, 06:25 PM

Thanks for the reply. My original question is backup-related and so my next step will be to become more acquainted with rsync.