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Hello. I need help with copying part of a file structure to another directory while still keeping the structure. For example look below:

../folder1/sub1/txt.txt
../folder1/sub2/pic.png
../folder2/sub1/pic.png
../folder2/sub2/txt.txt

So in this I would like to copy only the directories and sub-directories that contains a file with a png extension.

Cheers, the.

hi,

You could use a find function. If you're comfortable with find and cp, then you could do something like,

find ../ -name *.png -exec cp -R {} ./folder where you want to copy to/ \;

obviously you'll need to change this a bit for your purposes.

hope that helps

first use find command to get the list

Code:

find /yourSearchRootDir -name "*.png" -type f > tempFile   # this will listout all files having png extension in tempfile

So tempFile will look like:

now run tar command on it.

Code:

tar -cvf myBulk.tar `cat tempFile`

at last untar this directory structure wherever u want. So, execute following command in target directory. It will create same directory structure.

Code:

tar -xvf /path/myBulk.tar

Thanks R0H0N! Works perfectly!