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09-19-2010

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Hi.

I found it easier to think of replicating the directory tree, omitting the non-directory items, and then tarring up that tree:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate replication of directory structure.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space.
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }

pl " Original tree \"a\" with files:"
tree -a -F a

pl " Original tree \"a\", listing directories only:"
tree -d -a -F a

rm -rf skeleton skeleton-t1
find . -type d ! -name '*skeleton*' > skeleton-t1
# cat skeleton-t1
sed 's|^[.]|skeleton|' skeleton-t1 > skeleton-t2
# cat skeleton-t2

IFS=$'\012'
while read dir
do
  mkdir "$dir"
done < skeleton-t2

pl " New upper tree named \"skeleton\", same structure, expecting no files:"
tree -a -F skeleton

pl  " Final tar operation:"
tar cvf skeleton.tar -C skeleton .

pl " Listing of tar file:"
tar xvf skeleton.tar

exit 0

producing on an existing example tree "a":

Code:

% ./s1

-----
 Original tree "a" with files:
a
|-- .a4
|-- a-3
|-- a1
|-- a2
|-- b/
|   |-- b1
|   |-- b2
|   |-- b3 with spaces
|   `-- d/
|       |-- d1
|       `-- d2
`-- c/
    |-- c1
    |-- c2
    `-- e-dir with spaces/
        |-- .f-hidden/
        |   |-- f1
        |   `-- f2
        |-- e1
        `-- e2

5 directories, 15 files

-----
 Original tree "a", listing directories only:
a
|-- b
|   `-- d
`-- c
    `-- e-dir with spaces
        `-- .f-hidden

5 directories

-----
 New upper tree named "skeleton", same structure, expecting no files:
skeleton
`-- a/
    |-- b/
    |   `-- d/
    `-- c/
        `-- e-dir with spaces/
            `-- .f-hidden/

6 directories, 0 files

-----
 Final tar operation:
./
./a/
./a/b/
./a/b/d/
./a/c/
./a/c/e-dir with spaces/
./a/c/e-dir with spaces/.f-hidden/

-----
 Listing of tar file:
./
./a/
./a/b/
./a/b/d/
./a/c/
./a/c/e-dir with spaces/
./a/c/e-dir with spaces/.f-hidden/

I ran this on a tree that had 60 MB in 280 directories, and it went too quickly for me to see anything except the last part of the list.

There may be other shorter methods as well ... cheers, drl

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