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Vicky Dev
Vicky Dev

Reputation: 2183

Bash: Copy all files with same extension in root/current folder, except those whose filename contains certain string

I have built script for copying multiple folders and files matching file types in one cp command line only like below:

today=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y");
cp -r ./{dir1,dir2,dir3,..,fi.le1.ext1,*.ext2,*.ext3} "../Target_$today/Subdir_$today/"

Now I want to copy all files of ".ext3" but leave out files that contain "lock" or "-lock" in their name. Because those files are auto-generated and so not required to backup those(eg. package-lock.json).

How can I do that without adding any find statement in between, but only using wildcard and negation operators ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 107

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785571

Using extended glob:

shopt -s extglob nullglob

cp -r ./{dir1,dir2,dir3,..,fi.le1.ext1,!(*lock).ext2,*.ext3} "../Target_$today/Subdir_$today/"

Upvotes: 4

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