Re: Help with command - cp
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On 2014-01-26 21:48, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> * Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 15:49 (+0100):
>
>> On 2014-01-26 15:26, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to
>>> dirB. I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command
>>> achieve it?
>>
>> I prefer using rsync instead:
>>
>> $ rsync --dry-run -av --progress --exclude='.*' /path/to/A/
>> /path/to/B/
>>
>> * The slashes after A and B are important.
>
> No, you only have to take care about the trailing slash of the
> source A. See rsync(1):
>
> A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid
> creating an additional directory level at the destination. You can
> think of a trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the contents of
> this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by name", but in
> both cases the attributes of the containing directory are
> transferred to the containing directory on the destination. In
> other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the
> same way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
>
> rsync -av /src/foo /dest rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
>
> The trailing slash of the target directory B is irrelevant:
>
> $ mkdir -p foo/dir $ touch foo/file foo/dir/file foo/.hidden
> foo/dir/.hidden $ rsync -av --exclude='.*' foo target1 $ rsync -av
> --exclude='.*' foo target2/
>
> The results are identical directories ./target1 and ./target2. Of
> course, both need not exist.
You're right. I always use trailing slashes on both sides, because
that way both rsync and cp behave as I expect them to.
> Regards, Mathias
- - Felix
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