Copy nested directory structure ignoring all directories of a certain name

I came up with the following solution.

# exclude system created files like .DS_Store, desktop.ini...
arg="-C
"

# project each "$path" to "/$path/**" and concat 'em all
while read line || [[ -n $line ]]; do
    arg+="+ /$line/**
"
done < $subdirs

# */ - includes each folder so that rsync traverses the whole tree,
# *  - excludes everything else
arg+="+ */
- *"

# -m - excludes "empty" dirs that we used to traverse the tree
echo "$arg" | rsync -rmhvn -f ". -" --delete-excluded --info=PROGRESS2 --size-only $source/./ "$target"

You can try with rsync or tar command .

See this or this post.

From rsync man page

    --exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
    --exclude-from=FILE     read exclude patterns from FILE

rsync -avz --exclude 'dir*' source/ destination/