copy directory structure

[Oliver Fromme]

Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha at gmail.com> 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

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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