Copy the file system structure

[Ranjit_3]

Hi ,
How to copy only the file system structure not the files within it .

e.g : I have a folder named "a" and inside one more folder named "b" with some files and similar folders . I just want to copy the empty file system structure with folders and sub-folders not the files .

Thanks in advance.

[Bernhard Mueller]

Ranjit,

cd
find . -xdev -type d | cpio -pduvmx

Regards,
Bernhard

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

Yes. You can try as,

# go to source file system structure directory
cd /home/source

for dir `find . \( ! -name . \) -type d`
do

mkdir /home/dest/$dir

done

hth.

[Hilary Nicholson]

Use find with the option type d

find . -type d |cpio -pvdum

Regards,

Hilary

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

You can use:

#find /folder -type d -exec cp {} /new_structure \;

Enjoy :-)

[Ranjit_3]

Thanks to all for the quick answers .

Bye...