Need one liner copy command

madhi · 07-31-2008, 01:15 AM

Hi all,

I have 100 files in a source directory; need to copy all files except 4 or 5 files (which has different file extensions) to the target directory.

Can anyone give a one liner command to do this task

Thanks in advance
-Madhi

indeliblestamp · 07-31-2008, 01:22 AM

This might be a little clumsy but it works:

Code:

cp `ls * | grep -v file1 | grep -v file2 | grep -v file3` newfolder

madhi · 07-31-2008, 01:32 AM

Thanks Arungoodboy, it works.