Re: copy directory structure

Ashok Shrestha wrote:

Thank you All.



On 12/22/05, Oliver Fromme <olli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you know how to copy just a directory structure (not the files inside it)?

The following is probably the easiest and most efficient way
($SRC and $DST are the source and destination directories):

cd $SRC; find . -type d | cpio -dumpl $DST



add -depth

e.g. 

cd $SRC; find . -type d -depth | cpio -dumpl $DST

that ensures that the timestamps on the directories are correct too.
(if that matters)


It will also preserve permission modes and ownerships (if
run as root).  The command is even portable to other UNIX
systems (it's not BSD-specific).  If you suspect that there
are filenames that could contain newline characters, use
find's -print0 option and cpio's -0 option, but those are
not portable.

Best regards
 Oliver

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