Re: copy many files filtering extensions

[Johan Ehnberg]

Rob Weir wrote:

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:10:10PM +0100, Mat wrote:

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)?
Thanks
Mat

Depends on your shell (which globs * before passing it to cp).  zsh (of
course:) can do this simply:

$ cp *~*.bak /blah/

-rob

Or, if installing a small program called 'rsync' is not a problem, use it with '--exclude=*.bak'. It's a really cool program btw. Can be used for local copying as well.

Hth,
/johan

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