tar copy with include

eodchop · 08-21-2009, 08:48 AM

Hello and happy friday,

I have 15gigs of images i need to move from ./originals/import_20090814 to ./images/assets/Static+Images. However my client is only wanting to copy the .pdf, .jpg and .eps files that are in the ./originals/imports_20090814/ directory. How would i do a tar copy to exclude? Is there a --include function like the --exclude function. Or maybe is it possible to use the --exclude flag to exclude everything except .jpg, .pdf and .eps? Couldnt find my answer in the man page. Thank you!

rizhun · 08-21-2009, 09:30 AM

You could use something like:

Code:

$ ls -1 /full/path/to/import_20090814/{*.pdf,*.jpg,*.eps} | xargs -i mv {} /full/path/to/Static+Images/

eodchop · 08-21-2009, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rizhun

You could use something like:

Code:

$ ls -1 /full/path/to/import_20090814/{*.pdf,*.jpg,*.eps} | xargs -i mv {} /full/path/to/Static+Images/

That worked great thanks!