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Sometimes I need to perform following command
cp -rv demo demo_bkp However I want to ignore all the files in directory .git . How do I achieve that? It takes a long time to copy .git files and I do not need those files.
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You can use --exclude multiples times. Note that the dir thefoldertoexclude after --exclude option is relative to the sourcefolder , i.e., sourcefolder/thefoldertoexclude . Also you can add -n for dry run to see what will be copied before performing real operation, and if everything is ok, remove -n from command line.
cp does not delete files. Show activity on this post. -i Cause cp to write a prompt to the standard error output before copying a file that would overwrite an existing file.
To do so, create a text file with the name of the files and directories you want to exclude. Then, pass the name of the file to the --exlude-from option.
To ignore a git directory specifically, I'd try git export first.
But in general, to copy a directory tree excluding certain files or folders, I'd recommend using rsync instead of cp. The syntax is mostly the same, but rsync has way more options, including one to exclude selected files:
rsync -rv --exclude=.git demo demo_bkp See e.g. the man page for more info.
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