Re: [MLUG] cp -R --skip [pattern]?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/3/07, Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007, Dave Lloyd wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think this exists, but this is what I'd like:  A way to copy a
> >> directory tree but ignoring certain files, or copying files of a certain
> >> type only.
> >>
> >> I have a directory tree with MP3 files in it, but there also are HTML files
> >> (album reviews) and JPEG files (album covers).  I would like to replicate
> >> that directory tree without the MP3 files.  I know that I could copy the
> >> whole thing and then delete the MP3 files, but they are huge and that is
> >> not feasible.

> > find ./ -name \*mp3 -exec cp {} /newpath \;
>
> probably even better would be
>
> find ./ -name \*mp3 -print | cpio -ocv | (cd /newpath ; cpio -id )

But he wants to skip the mp3 files; basically, he wants the equivalent
of -v in grep. I may be missing something, but it's not obvious this
is easily doable. Something like:

find ./ -print | grep -v \*mp3 | blahblahblah

might do it, but somebody else seems to have found a great way using
rsync, which may moot this.

jking

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