How to copy directory from remote server with scp, excluding a specific subdirectory

Question

I have a directory that I want to copy from a remote server to my desktop. In this directory there is a 40Gb subdirectory that I want to exclude from copying. Until now I used the scp command but there is no -exclude option or anything similar in the man page. By looking online I found a bunch of different ways to copy directory from remote host or exclude a subdirectory when copying locally but no way of how to combine those two. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

To copy with excluding some file or folder, you should try rsync command.

There is --exclude-dir option you can use to exclude subdirectory.