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Minhaj
Asked: 2011-10-25 12:21:48 +0800 CST

Moving files and folders except few

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I made a terrible mistake while move sites of one server to another. We created virtualhosts in the new server using virtualmin. But while restoring files from old server to new server, I mistakenly copied all files in "/home/VIRTUALHOSTS-NAME/" instead of "/home/VIRTUALHOSTS-NAME/public_html". Now I had to move all files from the home directory of the virtualhosts to the public_html directory except few default folders like: fcgi-bin, public_html, awstats,cgi-bin etc. Can this be automated with a shell script or any command with pipe?

scripting shell

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  1. Best Answer

    Assuming your shell is bash, 

    shopt -s extglob
mv !(fcgi-bin|public_html|awstats|cgi-bin|...) public_html
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  2. Yes, rsync is able to do this out-of-the-box. There are many command line parameters to tweak it as you want it.

    Assuming you are on an Operating System where rsync is available.

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