cp command

[keak]

hi there,
I am writing a shell script and I was wondering if I can prevent contents in softlinks to be copied over with the cp -r command?

Also, is there a way in cp to copy all fiels except for a single file or directory ?

Thanks!

 

[SamBones]

In the Korn shell, if you want to copy all files except (for example) files ending with ".txt", do this...

cp !(*.txt) /destination/dir

That "[tt]!(*.txt)[/tt]" will expand to everything BUT files ending in ".txt".

 

[p5wizard]

Try

cp -h -r src dest

to recreate softlinks instead of copying the files that the softlinks point to...


HTH,

p5wizard