I have a folder, which consists of many folders and many tar files. (this many is around 1000)
I want to write a script to copy all folders with their contents to another directory, but I do not want to copy tar files.
I already know by writing
cp -a /source/ /path/
I can copy a directory with its contents to another, but for this case, I do not know how to do it.
As the number of directories are alot, I am not able to each time copy one directory.
I appreciate if someone can help me on this.
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Answer
I think this might be what you’re looking for.
You want to use the rsync
command and in the --exclude
flag you want to put *.tar
So your answer will look something like this:
rsync -r --exclude='*.tar' [source] [destination]
This is also a helpful little tutorial on how to use rsync
.