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Re: cp with subdirectories following some pattern removed?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: cp with subdirectories following some pattern removed? |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:13:07 +0100 |
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On 07/11/2012 05:27 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need to cp a directories with all the the subdirectories matching a
> pattern removed (ignore all the test* subdirectories). There can be
> many solutions to this problem. I'm wondering if anybody is aware of
> an easy and robust solution. Thanks!
This sort of thing is surprisingly tricky.
I've used something like the following in the past:
(cd dir1 && find -mindepth 1 \( -type d -a -name 'test*' \) -prune -o -print0 |
tar --null -T- -c) |
(cd dir2 && tar -x)
The above can be easily extended by putting ssh in the pipe.
cheers,
Pádraig.