On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:49:31 Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > On 2014-01-26 15:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. > > I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve > > it? >> :-- > > cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B > > Not quite. But close. You can get in trouble depending on how > many items are in A and whether or not B exists. And it will only > ignore hidden files if they are in A directly, not if they are in > subdirectories. > > I prefer using rsync instead: > > $ rsync --dry-run -av --progress --exclude='.*' /path/to/A/ > /path/to/B/ > > > Notes: > > * Existing files in B will be overwritten. > * You may want to look at the manpage to see what the options do. > * The slashes after A and B are important. > * The --dry-run option will show you what the command will do > without actually performing the copy -- so you can check whether it > behaves as expected. Leave it out to actually perform the copy. > * You can add the --delete option if you want to completely > synchronise the directories, as it will cause removal of files in B > that are not in A (except those excluded -- see the man page). > * If you only want to exclude hidden files in A itself (not in > subdirectories), use --exclude='/.*' instead.
Thank you, Felix. That is very helpful and clear. Your notes are very useful. As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201401261605.52433.lisi.re...@gmail.com
