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Andrew Fashion
Asked: 2010-12-03 08:38:19 +0800 CST

How can I SCP entire directory but exclude a directory?

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I want to SCP an entire directory over to my new server, but exclude the thumbs/ directory inside /storage.

i want to scp over (and everything inside it, and all directories): /storage

but exclude: /storage/thumbs

thank you

centos scp

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use rsync: rsync -av --exclude thumbs /storage dest

    Rsync uses secure copy.

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  2. Happy to be proven wrong but there's nothing I can see in the man page to suggest you can, presumably you're using '-r' right?

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