Copying a Directory Tree

I wanted to duplicate a directory tree without copying files. I did not recall needing to do that before. After my common habit of sleeping on the question I awakened with a simple approach.

find /toplevel/name/of/directory -type d

That output provided me the directories.

The output may be massageed as needed. For example:

OLD_IFS="$IFS"; IFS=$'\n'; for dir in $(find /toplevel/name/of/directory -type d | sort | sed -e ’s|/toplevel/||'); do echo “$dir"; mkdir -p “$dir"; done; IFS="$OLD_IFS"

The internal file separator (IFS) variables and quotation marks manage directory names containing spaces.

To compare the directory tree use tree -d in each location.

Posted: May 29, 2021 Category: Usability Tagged: General

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