[ale] cp but maintaining path?

[Charles Shapiro]

Actually, the 'flying tar' you mention is approximately how I copy whole
directories from one place to another.

"cp -R dir1 dir2" also works, but it will create dir1 and all
sub-directories in the tree in dir2, so it's a little tricky to get exactly
right sometimes.

-- CHS


On 3/12/08, 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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