Re: Copy everything bar one folder
- From: "Mitch Contla" <mcontla@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:17:47 -0800
On 2/27/07, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to copy everything bar one very large folder from my current
/home partition to another smaller partition and make this new partition
/home.
The only real problem I'm having is finding out how to copy all the
files bar one. I could copy a few at a time I suppose but that seems
rather long winded.
Trawling round the web hasn't produced any answers. Any body got any ideas
SteVe
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Use find with -wholename and -prune options. Then pipe the output to xargs:
$ find /home -wholename '/home/directory-not-to-copy' -prune -o
-print0 | xargs -I{} -0 mv {} /dest-folder/
You may want to tweak the mv options. man find and man mv for more information.
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