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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting a script to clone a dir tree, & overwrite the dir struct elsewhere? Post 87821 by OpenMacNews on Friday 28th of October 2005 02:56:25 AM
Old 10-28-2005
a script to clone a dir tree, & overwrite the dir struct elsewhere?

hi all,

i'm looking for a bash or tcsh script that will clone an empty dir tree 'over' another tree ...

specifically, i'd like to:

(1) specify a src directory
(2) list the directory tree/hiearchy beneath that src dir, w/o files -- just the dirs
(3) clone that same, empty dir hierarchy to a NEW OR EXISTING specified dir target, creating dirs/subdirs as necessary
(4) all ORIG dir ownership/perms should be preserved/corrected in the target tree

any obvious/existing solutions? i'd have thought this exists already somewhere ...

thx!

richard
 

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mvdir(1M)																 mvdir(1M)

NAME
mvdir - move a directory SYNOPSIS
dir newdir DESCRIPTION
moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it. dir must be an existing directory. If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir. Otherwise, newdir must be an existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir. In this case, dir is moved and becomes a subdirectory of newdir. The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory. refuses to move dir if the path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir. Such cases are not allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited. does not allow directory to be moved. Only users who have appropriate privileges can use EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP. SEE ALSO
cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mvdir(1M)
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