MLUG: Re: [MLUG] cp -R --skip [pattern]?
Re: [MLUG] cp -R --skip [pattern]?
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On Thu, 3 May 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Dave Lloyd wrote:

find ./ -name \*mp3 -exec cp {} /newpath \;


That skips all *mp3 files and copies all others?
I would have thought that it copies mp3 files and ignores all others.

Ah. You want to skip mp3. You can negate the name property, should be in the man page somewhere. ;)

--dlloyd

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