Copy everything bar one folder

[SteVe Cook]

Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 2/28/07, *SteVe Cook* <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
> I want to copy everything bar one very large folder from my current 
> /home partition to another smaller partition and make this new
> partition /home.
> 
> The only real problem I'm having is finding out how to copy all the 
> files bar one. I could copy a few at a time I suppose but that seems 
> rather long winded.
> 
> Trawling round the web hasn't produced any answers.  Any body got any
> ideas
> 
> SteVe
> 
> 
> 
> Does bar means excluded mate? :-)
> 
> Ok, supposed you have a bar directory, we can lorry the other files
> and gotten them copied to a destination directory.
> 
> rsync --exclude=/home/bar -a /home /newhome
> 
> You can always snuck in another --exclude= to rsync.
> 
Thanks everybody for the replies, I knew there would be several options.
   The one from Cybe R. Wizard being the one I was trying to think of but
couldn't.


...and yes bar does mean except.  Not the best display of English, but 
my brain was getting a bit addle at by then. ;-)

Thanks
SteVe