> I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their
> extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as I can
> read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)?

you could try rsync, it has an --exclude=<regexp> option

apt-get install rsync
man rsync

greetz,

Joris


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