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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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.
>
> I would think there is a simply GNUish Linuxy trick to this, possibly 
> using "find" somehow.  I think I see a way to write a script that uses 
> find, but it wouldn't be all that efficient.  For example, I can write 
> out the entire directory tree like so:
>
> find . -type d -print
>
> I can process that output to do what I want, but I see no way to do it 
> with xargs -- I would use perl to create a shell script from the output, 
> then execute the shell script.  But isn't there a one-liner for this?
>
> It would be great if one of you guys could suggest something.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike

Maybe something like this?  I haven't tested it, but I would think that 
something like this would work.

tar cvf --exclude "*mp3" - directory-to-copy \
| (cd where-you-want-copy; tar xfp -)

You can remove the first "v" if you don't want verbose output.

Stephen

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