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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to rsync or tar directory trees, with hidden directory, but without files? Post 302454642 by drl on Sunday 19th of September 2010 12:54:42 PM
Old 09-19-2010
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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PPTEMPLATE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     PPTEMPLATE(1)

NAME
pptemplate - script to generate Makefile.PL and PP file skeleton SYNOPSIS
# generate Makefile.PL and mymodule.pd in CWD pptemplate PDL::MyModule; DESCRIPTION
The pptemplate script is the easiest way to start a new module for PDL that contains PP code (see also PDL::PP). The usage is simply pptemplate modulename; As a result pptemplate will generate a perl Makefile for the new module (Makefile.PL) that contains the minimal structure to generate a module from PP code and also a skeleton file for your new module. The file will be called mymod.pd if you called "pptemplate" as pptemplate PDL::CleverAlgs::Mymod; I suppose you can work out the naming rule ";)". If not resort to experimentation or the source code. "pptemplate" will refuse to overwrite existing files of the same name to avoid accidents. Move them out of the way if you really want to scrap them. Options Currently there is only the "-i" option which switches "pptemplate" into the so called internal mode. It should only be used when you are starting a new module within the main PDL tree that is supposed to be part of the PDL distribution and the normal PDL build process, e.g. cd PDL/IO; mkdir Mpthree; cd Mpthree; pptemplate -i PDL::IO::Mpthree; BUGS
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