Copy files which doesn not start with some prefix?

laki47 · 07-09-2009, 06:51 AM

Hi,

Is there a way with cp command to copy files which doesn't start with prefix i.e. pref_?

I have the following:

temp1.txt
temp2.txt
pref_1.txt
temp3.txt
bla1.txt
bla2.txt
pref_2.txt

I want to copy all but pref_x.txt files? Can I do that with cp command?

Thank you

PMP · 07-09-2009, 08:04 AM

Code:

ls -1 | grep -v '^pref_' | xargs -i cp {} <destination_directory>

lucmove · 07-09-2009, 03:31 PM

Code:

for i in *; do cp ${i%pref_*} directory/; done