When piped to a text processor like sed then the file name should be in quotes:
Code:
find . -type d -print | sed "s/.*/mkdir -p '&'/"
Sorry, but this is not the case. "&" is the metacharacter for "everything matched by the regexp in the search part". In this case it is everything matched by ".*", which is the whole line.
The way i wrote it it was single-quoted and hence already protected by the shell. The way you wrote it as a seemingly single-quoted string inside a double-quoted string it is not correct any more because single quotes lose their special meaning inside a quoted string. For instance: echo "this is a ' inside a double-quoted string" will display the single-quote like a normal character whereas echo 'this is a " inside a single-quoted string' will treat the double-quote as normal character and the single-quotes as string delimiters.
The reason is that the shell maintains just one flag "inside quoted string", which is either TRUE or false. Once a (single- or double-) is encountered this flag is switched and only switched back when a second matching (and not escaped) is found. Other quote-chars are ignored (or, respectively, treated as normal characters) during this time.
Having said this it is probably better to rephrase the sed-command this way:
Code:
find . -type d -print | sed 's/^/mkdir -p /; $ s/$/; chmod -R 777 */' > script.sh
It would be quicker just to get the list of directories and send that to the new server, then loop to do the creations there.
I would also change it to use the -m flag on the mkdir, negating the need for a chmod
You could also use tar if you have a way to exclude files (AIX has the -L flag that may help) to use perhaps fsdump & fsrestore; ufsdump & ufsrestore; or backup & restore
If you use the restore interactively, you can get the structure as is and then abort the actual data restore.
There are probably lots of other options too, like the cpio one above.
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