copy directory structure

[Ashok Shrestha]

Thank you All.



On 12/22/05, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> 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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Ashok Shrestha