Re: Copy everything bar one folder

Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
On 2/28/07, *SteVe Cook* <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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



Does bar means excluded mate? :-)

Ok, supposed you have a bar directory, we can lorry the other files
and gotten them copied to a destination directory.

rsync --exclude=/home/bar -a /home /newhome

You can always snuck in another --exclude= to rsync.

Thanks everybody for the replies, I knew there would be several options.
The one from Cybe R. Wizard being the one I was trying to think of but
couldn't.


...and yes bar does mean except. Not the best display of English, but
my brain was getting a bit addle at by then. ;-)

Thanks
SteVe

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