npm install copyfilescopyfiles 
===
copy files easily
``bash`
npm install copyfiles -g$3
`bash
Usage: copyfiles [options] inFile [more files ...] outDirectory
Options:
-u, --up slice a path off the bottom of the paths [number]
-a, --all include files & directories begining with a dot (.) [boolean]
-f, --flat flatten the output [boolean]
-e, --exclude pattern or glob to exclude (may be passed multiple times)
-E, --error throw error if nothing is copied [boolean]
-V, --verbose print more information to console [boolean]
-s, --soft do not overwrite destination files if they exist [boolean]
-F, --follow follow symbolink links [boolean]
-v, --version Show version number [boolean]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
`
copy some files, give it a bunch of arguments, (which can include globs), the last one
is the out directory (which it will create if necessary). Note: on windows globs must be double quoted, everybody else can quote however they please.
`bash`
copyfiles foo foobar foo/bar/*.js out
you now have a directory called out, with the files foo and foobar in it, it also has a directory named foo with a directory named
bar in it that has all the files from foo/bar that match the glob.
If all the files are in a folder that you don't want in the path out path, ex:
`bash`
copyfiles something/*.js out
which would put all the js files in out/something, you can use the --up (or -u) option
`bash`
copyfiles -u 1 something/*.js out
which would put all the js files in out
you can also just do -f which will flatten all the output into one directory, so with files ./foo/a.txt and ./foo/bar/b.txt
`bash`
copyfiles -f ./foo/.txt ./foo/bar/.txt out
will put a.txt and b.txt into out
if your terminal doesn't support globstars then you can quote them
`bash`
copyfiles -f ./foo/*/.txt out
does not work by default on a mac
but
`bash`
copyfiles -f "./foo/*/.txt" out
does.
You could quote globstars as a part of input:
`bash`
copyfiles some.json "./some_folder/*.json" ./dist/ && echo 'JSON files copied.'
You can use the -e option to exclude some files from the pattern, so to exclude all all files ending in .test.js you could do
`bash`
copyfiles -e "/.test.js" -f ./foo//.js out
Other options include
- -a or --all which includes files that start with a dot.-s
- or --soft to soft copy, which will not overwrite existing files.-F
- or --follow which follows symbolinks
also creates a copyup command which is identical to copyfiles but -up defaults to 1
`js
var copyfiles = require('copyfiles');
copyfiles([paths], opt, callback);
`
takes an array of paths, last one is the destination path, also takes an optional argument which the -u option if a number, otherwise if it's it's the flat option or if it is an object it is a hash of the various options (the long version e.g. up, all, flat, exclude, error, verbose, follow, and soft)