Dear, I have the following problem. I have DVD's with backups of multiple UNIX account. I now have to restore them. I do this with cp -rfv. What I would like is that I would be able to exclude local wastebaskets with directory name .scratch and the files in it. I would also like to be able to exclude files with a name *~ from the copy. I know I can do this with find, but it would be much more convenient if cp would have an option to exclude files from copying. Suppose this option would be triggered with -e or --exclude I then would be able to specify the copy as: cp -rvf -e '*~' -e .scratch
What about the idea? Is someone willing to implement this? Best regards, Francky Leyn _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
