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Question

I want to exclude two directories while copying.

Example:

$ ls /root/tmp
a b c d e f    

I want to exclude directories a and b :

$ cp -rp /root/tmp/ /root/tmp1/

Answer 1

rsync can be used to exclude multiple directories like this:

rsync -av --exclude=/root/tmp/a --exclude=/root/tmp/b /root/tmp/ /root/tmp1/

with cp command

cp -r /root/tmp/!(a | b) /root/tmp1/

Execute shopt -s extglob before cp command to enable ! in cp

Answer 2

Try the below rsync it works for me on ubuntu 14.04

rsync -av --exclude='/root/tmp/a' --exclude='/root/tmp/b' 
/path/to/include /path/to/include /path/to/destination

Answer 3

You could exclude the directories as part of find results before the copy, but using rsync or cp with the '!' support enabled as suggested by Sathiya is a much simpler solution.

See find example below:

find /root/tmp/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -regex '\(.*a\|.*b\)' -exec cp -r {} /root/tmp1/ \;

Answer 4

You can do this in bash (does not work in sh):

shopt -s extglob
cp -r !(somefile|somefile2|somefolder) destfolder/