Re: copy many files filtering extensions

[Johan Ehnberg <johan@ehnberg.net>]

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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