Re: [SLE] Duplicating a directory structure

On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:51 pm, Marlier, Ian wrote:

Hrm...except that those are going to bring the files with them -- I just
want an empty directory tree.

Is there a flag for either tar or cp that tells it to only see/move
directories, and not files?
Try this. I had forgotten about cpio. This works including copying
directories with embedded spaces.


find . -type d | cpio -pdum TARGET_DIRECTORY
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