[ale] cp but maintaining path?

[danverde]

Tar is really what you want to use.  It will maintain original file 
dates/times and permissions where copy wont necessarily.

tar -cf - <src dir> | tar  -tf -  -C <dest dir>


Dan



On Wednesday 12 March 2008 03:39:22 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I forgot about rsync.  That would been a great choice I suspect.
>
> I have it working the tar way. (My off the cuff effort was pretty
> close except I forgot that dir2 was a variable in my script.  ie. I'm
> trying to split up a huge directory tree into a bunch of smaller ones.
>
> Now it is running, I'll just let it run.
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
> > 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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