How to copy to the current folder part of another with exceptions?

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How to copy files and folders from another directory, excluding a couple of unnecessary ones?
I know it's possible like this:

cp sourcefolder/* !(excludefolder | excludefile) destination/

But I need to copy to the current one from another:

cp sourcefolder/* !(sourcefolder/excludefolder | sourcefolder/excludefile) this-folder/

Or copy to the previous one, from which I moved to sourcefolder:

cp sourcefolder/* !(excludefolder | excludefile) previous-folder/

This is real?

Answer 1

use extglob (for bash)

$ mkdir -p d/folder
$ touch d/folder/excludefile{1..5}
$ ls d/folder/
excludefile1  excludefile2  excludefile3  excludefile4  excludefile5
$ shopt -s extglob
$ cp d/folder/excludefile!(1|2) .
$ ls
d  excludefile3  excludefile4  excludefile5