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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying a Directory Structure to a new structure Post 79324 by jhansrod on Wednesday 27th of July 2005 02:41:18 AM
Old 07-27-2005
Copying a Directory Structure to a new structure

Hi all

Is it possible to copy a structure of a directory only.
e.g.
I have a file with the following entries that is a result of a find :-
/dir1/dir2/file.dbf
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file1.dbf
/dir1/file.dbf

I want to copy these to a directory and keep the structure however starting at a new dir :
/newdir/dir1/dir2/file.dbf
/newdir/dir1/dir2/dir3/file1.dbf
/newdir/dir1/file.dbf

when I use the cp -R command, the problem is that because there is a file, it just copies the file and not the structure.

Regards
J
 

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dircmp(1)							   User Commands							 dircmp(1)

NAME
dircmp - directory comparison SYNOPSIS
dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2 DESCRIPTION
The dircmp command examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Listings of files that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a list is output indicating whether the file names common to both directories have the same contents. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -d Compares the contents of files with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two files to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1). -s Suppresses messages about identical files. -w n Changes the width of the output line to n characters. The default width is 72. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: dir1 A path name of a directory to be compared. dir2 USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of dircmp when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31bytes). ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of dircmp: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES- SAGES, and NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. (Differences in directory contents are not considered errors.) ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 dircmp(1)
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