Re: copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:25:42 +1100 Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
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

copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-08 Thread Mat
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-08 Thread Joris
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)? you could try rsync, it has an --exclude=regexp option apt-get install rsync man rsync greetz,

Re: copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-08 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:10, 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)? From what I know, cp doesn't support this. However,