Re: [Hampshire] Selective file copy

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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Selective file copy
Thanks to Jan and Simon, those both sound startlingly simple!

Cheers,
Keith


On 5 February 2014 09:48, Jan Henkins <jan@???> wrote:

> Hello Keith,
>
> On 2014-02-05 08:55, LUG wrote:
> [snip]
>
>
> This is made more complicated by the fact that the /media/data/MP3
>> folder already has the Artist/Album/tracks structure in it as I have
>> converted the FLACs into MP3s using that as the output folder (there
>> wasn't enough room on the NAS to do them in-situ).
>>
>> Does that sound possible?
>>
>
> This sounds like an ideal job for rsync. You can invoke it with something
> like this:
>
> rsync -avP --exclude '*.flac' /path/to/source /path/to/destination
>
> Hope this helps!
>
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> Jan Henkins
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