cp and exclude?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
exclude certain directories?

Many thanks,
-T

[Cameron Simpson]

On 01Aug2019 14:13, ToddAndMargo  wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

Aside from "chmod 0 those_directories..."?

Or: "cp -r a b; rm -r b/c b/d ..."?

Use rsync:

rsync -ia --exclude=/local/path/to/subdir1 --exclude=....... this that

Note that the leading "/" in the --exclude anchors the pattern to the 
top of "this", not the root directory.

Also note that there are a few rsync options which -a does not include, 
notably (IIRC) -H (preserve hard links - may consume memory), -X 
(extended attributes) and -A (acls).

Test with the -n option first.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson

[Ed Greshko]

On 8/2/19 5:13 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

You could use "rsync".  It supports an --exclude option.

[Tim]

On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

Probably by using mind-bending regular expression rules.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 8/1/19 2:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

No, but you could use rsync instead.

[Bill Shirley]

rsync has a --exclude operand (which handles globs):
rsync -axAXv --delete -e "ssh -p 20026" --exclude 'tmp.session/*' --exclude 'documents/*' 
/home/webmaster/public_html/server1.example.com/DocumentRoot/ rsync://server2.example.com/backup/
If you rsync'ing locally, you won't need the -e operand.

Bill

On 8/1/2019 5:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
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[das]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:49 AM ToddAndMargo via users
 wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

The bash shell has myriads of ways to generate glob expressions that
can filter only those directories that you want. And including only
those means excluding all the others. 'bash glob' on the net will give
you some idea.

Hope that helps.

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 02/08/2019 07.13, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

rsync can do this with the --exclude options.
> Many thanks,
> -T

[François Patte]

Le 01/08/2019 à 23:13, ToddAndMargo via users a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

export GLOBIGNORE= directories to exclude separated by colons
cp -r ......

[George N. White III]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 02:03, ToddAndMargo via users <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?
>
> rsync can do copies with exclusions

[Jon Ingason]

Den 2019-08-01 kl. 23:13, skrev ToddAndMargo via users:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

I can't see how you can do that, but you can do thiss with rsync.
Look at the man page for rsync. Look at following options:

--exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
            --exclude-from=FILE     read exclude patterns from FILE
> Many thanks,
> -T
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[John Mellor]

On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

Assuming that you only need to exclude one file or dir, how about:
$ cd <src-dir>
$ find . -depth | grep -v '^<excluded-path>' | cpio -pdumv <dest-dir>
$ cd -

[Roger Heflin]

no.

You can do excludes (dir and files/wildcards) with rsync so you might
want to look at using it instead.

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:03 AM ToddAndMargo via users
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
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[Rex Dieter]

ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?

cp can't do that, as far as I'm aware, but you can use other tools like 
rsync that can exclude items.

-- Rex