lets say I have a folder by the name of "myfolder"
which subfolders: "folder1" "folder2" and "folder3"
and there are other files in "myfolder" as well.

how do I use the "cp" command to copy everything in folder "myfolder" including files and subfolders excluding "folder2"?




thanks

cp -R /folder /to/folder

(-R means recursive)

-geir

EDIT:
Didn't catch the last thing about not including folder2

easiest is probably to delete the folder2 after it's copied..

but that will not exclude "folder2", will it ?

just edited my original post.
(sorry I didn't catch the last line first time.)

-Geir

I'm afraid deleting after copying is not I want, I have to avoid copying it in the first place.

let me ask this differently - and this what I really want to do:
how do I copy a certain folder recursively with its sub folders and everything in it and keep the symbolic links in it as symbolic links at the destination ?

what happens now is when I run this:
cp -r -p mysource mydes

symbolic links in "mysource" are turned into folders in "mydes" containning the files those symbolic links point to at "mysource" - I want them to be kept symbolic links only

try using capital R instead of small.

cp -R -p ....

cp --help to see what they do

-Geir

capital R gave me the same result

If the symlinks point to the full path, and not just to the paths in that folder, symlinks will stay the same
ln -s /home/user/test4 test5
cp -R /home/user /test

the symlink /test/user/test5 now points to /home/user/test4

-Geir