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Jarvis
Jarvis

Reputation: 311

Bash script to copy folder and contents without one file

I'm trying to copy a directories contents without one file. The problem i'm having is that the file is a few folders nested and the extglob operator fails to match.

Assume the following folder structure:

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I would like to copy everything from source, including subfolders and files into dest except smu.txt.

I would have thought the following would do the trick:

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob

cp -vr source/!(smu.txt) dest/

But it still copies smu.txt.

I also tried the following without success:

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob
shopt -s globstar

cp -vr source/!(**/smu.txt) dest/

It if smu.txt is directly under ../source it successfully ignores it, but how do I get it to ignore files within subdirectories?

Upvotes: -1

Views: 281

Answers (1)

German
German

Reputation: 11

Have you tried using find? Maybe this works:

$ find -name "source/*!(smu.txt)" -exec cp -vr {} dest/\;

Upvotes: 1

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