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Date:      Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:50:09 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copy directory structure
Message-ID:  <20051221205009.GD17476@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0512211237i4cdd2c70yc0923959d7ec1c98@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <79e2026f0512211237i4cdd2c70yc0923959d7ec1c98@mail.gmail.com>

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In the last episode (Dec 21), Ashok Shrestha said:
> Do you know how to copy just a directory structure (not the files
> inside it)?

One way would be using mtree: 
"mtree -d -c -p /path | mtree -U -p /otherpath".  

You could also do it with find and tar:
"cd /path ; find . -type d | tar Tcfn - - | ( cd /otherpath ; tar xf - )"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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