On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:46:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Uhm... The coreutils 'cp invocation' node does not include a > "--exclude" option description in 6.10 in Lenny. The above shows up > in the 'du invocation' node. Could it be that you are looking at the > wrong documentation? I think so.
Yes, I was. Sorry for this stupid mistake. Meanwhile I have implemented what I required with: (cd $THE_DEST && find . \( -path ./scratch/news/archive -prune \) -o \( -path ./scratch/news/articles -prune \) -o -print0 | cpio --quiet --link -0 -pd $THE_DEST_LINK) aka a cp -al with excludes Thank you for your prompt response. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org