High Fibre Programming » copying http://www.4pmp.com PHP, MySQL, C, Java, Linux and other great after dinner speech topics Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 rsync – non recursive copying http://www.4pmp.com/2009/08/rsync-non-recursive-copying/ http://www.4pmp.com/2009/08/rsync-non-recursive-copying/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:41:24 +0000 Nick http://blog.4pmp.com/?p=28 I was looking for a way to get rsync to copy all the files in a particular directory and not recurse into the sub-directories.   Unfortunately I couldn’t find an appropriate parameter and a quick search on Google turned up nothing (apart from a lot of other people asking the same question!)

So as a last resort I decided to use my brain, and I came up with a simple solution that works.   It’s of the form:

rsync -avc --exclude "*/" ./source/* ./destination/

The above will copy all the files from the directory called “source” into the directory “destination” and will not recurse into any subdirectories of “source”.

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