Copy directory tree

[Chris Watson]

I have the following example directory structure;

/test/dir1/subd1.1/file

I would like to end up with /test/dir1 and everything below copying (retaining permissions and ownership) and being named as a tree called /test/dir2. Thus ending up with;

/test/dir1/subd1.1/file
&
/test/dir2/subd1.1/file

So I thought something like;

cp -pr /test/dir1 /test/dir2, but I end up with;

/test/dir2/dir1/subd1/file, not what I wanted.

Any ideas?

Regards

Chris

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Chris:

'cp' is the hard-way to do what you want! Try this:

# cd /test/dir1
# find . | cpio -pudlmv /test/dir2

See the man pages for the 'cpio' options!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hio Chris:

Try something like this:

mkdir /test/dir2
(set ownership and permission of this directory as desired using chown, chmod)

cd /test/dir1
find subd1.1 -print | cpio -pudvm /test/dir2/

Clay

[Rita C Workman]

Well I might have tried:

cp -pr /test/dir1/subd1.1/* /test/dir2

Just a thought,
Rita

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

cp -R /dir/tree/dir/tree /dir2/tree

The -R should do it, otherwise create a tar
from the tree you wish to keep

cd /mydir/tree
tar -cvf tree.tar tree
cd /newdir
tar -xvf tree.tar

Later,
Bill

[Eileen Millen]

mkdir /test/dir2
cd /test/dir1
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdumv /test/dir2

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris

cd /test/dir1/subd1.1
cp -pr subd1.1/* /test/dir2

Manoj Srivastava

[Mark van Hassel]

HI,

mkdir /test/dir2
cp -pR /test/dir1/* /test/dir2

and a "chown"on /test/dir2 to get the same permissions as on dir1

[Volker Borowski]

Chris,

many cp-solutions, but only two cpio ones.
But cpio is the better one, because of the correct handling of sym-links.

See this sample (c being a copy of a instead of b):

# touch a
# ln -s a b
# ll ?
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Aug 1 18:12 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1 Aug 1 18:12 b -> a
# cp -p b c
# ll ?
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Aug 1 18:12 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1 Aug 1 18:12 b -> a
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Aug 1 18:12 c
#

Hope this helps
Volker

[Kevin Wright]

your test directory already existed, so it created your structure below it..you could use you same copy command if you just delete the current dir2 and allow the cp -rp command to create if for you.
but as everyone stated, the best way is with find and cpio.

[Deshpande Prashant]

Try..
#cd /test
#mkdir test2
#cd /test/dir1
#cp -Rp . /test/dir2


Thanks.
Prashant.

[Chris Watson]

Thanks to everyone for your replies, of which there are to many to thank individually.

I have ended up with;

cd /test
cp -pr dir1/. dir2

which does the trick.

Thanks yall.

Chris

[Chris Watson]

Manoj,

I based my usage of your suggestion but modified the source to

cp -pr dir1/. dir2

As with an asterix it complained of too many files in my production usage.

Regards

Chris

[dennis bergman]

Im new to HP. Ive done this several times on Solaris and have used

cd to target_dir

find /path/source_dir -depth -print |cpio -pvdum .

I know this has already been suggested.....
good luck

[Joseph C. Denman]

This way for tar:

mkdir /test/dir2; cd /test/dir1;tar cpf - . | ( cd /test/dir2; tar xpf - )

A million ways to skin a cat!!!

...jcd...

[VARITRONIX]

Try to use "rdist",
it does everything you want to do.