[ale] cp but maintaining path?

[Björn Gustafsson]

Kinda depends on what $relative-path is like, but I'd usually use
rsync for that kind of operation.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>  I'm trying to do something a little strange.
>
>  I am working on a shell script that in the middle of it needs to copy
>  files (individually) from dir1 to dir2.
>
>  The trouble is that there is directory structure below dir1 that I
>  want to recreate in dir2.
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  Now that I'm thinking, maybe:
>
>  cd dir1
>  tar -cf - $relative-path | (cd dir2; tar -xf -)
>  cd dir2
>
>  I'll go experiment, but if anyone knows a better way or the specific
>  args for this way, I would appreciate it.
>
>  Thanks
>  Greg
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