Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:13:51 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 1 2007 09:02, G T Smith wrote:
> >>> nonmembers folder at the command line. What do I type?
> >>
> >> rsync -AHPSXav --exclude=members * members/;
> >>
> >>> Sounds easy doesn't it.
> >>
> >> Indeed, I am not sure why everyone tries to use cp, ls, grep and
> >> pipes.
> >
> >Indeed (now rsync as well)...
> >
> >when...
> >
> >cp -dpP * members
> >
> >will actually do the required job...( I did test it after I wondered why
> >everyone was missing the obvious :-) )
>
> That certainly does not work.
>
> 10:14 ichi:../home/nonmembers > mkdir 100 200 300 400
> 10:14 ichi:../home/nonmembers > touch 100/100 200/200 300/300 400/400
> 10:14 ichi:../home/nonmembers > md members
> 10:14 ichi:../home/nonmembers > cp -Pdp * members
> /bin/cp: omitting directory `100'
> /bin/cp: omitting directory `200'
> /bin/cp: omitting directory `300'
> /bin/cp: omitting directory `400'
> /bin/cp: omitting directory `members'

shopt -s extglob
cp !(members) nonmembers/
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