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Copy folder from one location to another by excluding specified folder .

 - rsync -av --progress sourcefolder /destinationfolder --exclude thefoldertoexclude

Create and Extract Archives

To extract a ZIP file, you can use:

-unzip archive.zip

To extract a Tar file, you can use:

-tar -xvf archive.tar

To extract a Tar.Gz file, you can use:

-tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

To extract a Rar file, you can use:

-rar x archive.rar

To create tar.gz

tar -zcf archive-name.tar.gz foldername/

Note: The above will archive the entire folder foldername in an archive named archive-name.tar.gz in the current working directory.

Delete Files and Folders

To delete a whole folder and its content recursively, you can use:

-rm -rf foldername/

To delete all files/folders in the current directory, without deleting the directory itself, you would need to use:

-rm -rf *

Move and copy files and folders

The mv command syntax looks like this:

-mv original_file new_name

By executing the above command you will move (rename) the file original_file to new_name.

You can also use mv to move a whole directory and its content:

-mv includes/* ./

This will move all files (and folders) from the includes/ directory to the current working directory.

In some cases however, you will need to only update and move only files that were changed, which you can do by passing -u as argument to the command:

-mv -u includes/* admin/includes

The copy (cp) command works the same way as mv, but instead of moving the files/folders it copies them. For example:

-cp original_file new_file

The command will copy the original_file file to new_file and will preserve the original one (the file will NOT be removed after it is copied).

cp also accepts various arguments:

-cp -R includes/ includes_backup/

"-R" instructs cp to copy files recursively (for example, a whole directory). To overwrite already existing files you should use the -f argument:

-cp -Rf includes/ admin/includes/

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