copy directory structure

[Julian Elischer]

Ashok Shrestha wrote:

>Thank you All.
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>On 12/22/05, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
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>>Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Do you know how to copy just a directory structure (not the files inside it)?
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>>The following is probably the easiest and most efficient way
>>($SRC and $DST are the source and destination directories):
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>>cd $SRC; find . -type d | cpio -dumpl $DST
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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.
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>>Best regards
>>  Oliver
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