Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:56:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smart file gobbling: exclude one file from list Message-ID: <20020802215617.GA9408@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <001201c23a6e$17e78e60$0200a8c0@capm> References: <001201c23a6e$17e78e60$0200a8c0@capm>
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In the last episode (Aug 02), Pascal Giannakakis said: > Hi, > > if i do "cp * /destination", all files in the current directory will be > copied to /destination. What do i have to type, if i want to expand the '*' > to all files, except of one? For example, if i wanted to exclude the file > "notme" in the current directory? > > I know i could hack it with grep, but this fails as all files are on one > line. I wonder how you gurus would solve this! :) If you are using zsh and have the EXTENDED_GLOB option set, cp *~notme /destination Otherwise, you'll need to do something like cp $(echo ' ' * ' ' | sed -e 's/ notme / /') /destination -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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