Re: cp with subdirectories following some pattern removed?

[Jim Meyering]

Peng Yu wrote:
> 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!

I would use rsync for that:

    rsync -avP --exclude='test*' A B