How to use 'mv' command to move files except those in a specific directory?

Question

I am wondering - how can I move all the files in a directory except those files in a specific directory (as \'mv\' does not have a \'--exclude\' option)?

Answer 1

Since find does have an exclude option, use find + xargs + mv:

find /source/directory -name ignore-directory-name -prune -print0 | xargs -0 mv --target-directory=/target/directory

Note that this is almost copied from the find man page (I think using mv --target-directory is better than cpio).