what is a good command to copy the directory,

[Hanry Zhou]

and all leveles of its sub-directories underneath the top directory? I want to copy all directories structure only, not files underneath.

thanks,
Roger

[Patrick Wallek]

I know of no HP-UX command that will just copy the directory structure, but not the files.

You could possibly create something with a combination of 'find . -type d', mkdir and chmod/chown.

[Geoff Wild]

Sounds like you want to create the directories - not copy them...

Okay - find them all first:

for DIR in `find /home -type d -print`
do
mkdir -p /newdir/$DIR
done

Rgds...Geoff

[Alzhy]

find ./srcdir -type d |cpio -pdvmu /tgtdir

[Sundar_7]

Sure there is a way...you can use pax for duplicating directory hierarchies

On system1

find . â type d â print | pax â w â d â p o â f /root/dir-structure

On system2

Copy the file /root/dir-structure from system1 and execute

# pax -rv -p o /root/dir-structure

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Sorry my last post got messed up

in system1

find . -type d -print | pax -w -d -p o -f /root/dir-structure

in system2

pax -rv -p o /root/dir-structure

[Rick Garland]

The cpio command is very useful in this situation. Will copy the files/subdirs and keep perms and ownerships intact.

cd
find . -depth | cpio -pmuldv

"cpio pmudl" is how I remember it.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

yet another option:

cd to target,
find -d,
cut off leading char(acters)
feed to mkdir.
For exameple:

find /var/opt -type d | cut -b 6- | xargs mkdir

(relatively) safe way to clean up after experiments:

find -depth -exec rmdir {} \;

[Sreekanth Makam_1]

Hi ..

Why are u all making things complex..

Try cp -R

That's it..Read "man cp"

regrads,
sree

[Sreekanth Makam_1]

oops..
I missed some thing...

After cp command
run rm `find .`


regards,
sree

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Dear sree
I think u didn't understand Hanry's question.He don't want to copy the files under the child directories,need to copy the directory structure only.
#cp -R won't serve the purpose.

regards
SK

[Sundar_7]

Hanry,

Believe me, PAX is the way to go. With all those find and mkdirs, you sure can duplicate the directory hierarchy. But it takes some more scripting to keep the ownership also the access permissions.

- Sundar

[Geoff Wild]

Sundar has it - right from the pax man page:

DESCRIPTION
The pax command extracts and writes member files of archive files;
writes lists of the member files of archives; and copies directory
hierarchies.

Rgds...Geoff