Re: Copying certain subdirectories retaining structure

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 02/22/2014 01:40 PM, Philippe Troin wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 20:06 +0000, zzapper wrote:
>> I want to copy all files in subdirectories named /good/ to a USB while
>> retaining directory structure
>>
>> /aaa/pic/good
>> /aan/dogs/good/
>> /dir1/dir2/dir3/good/
> for i in **/good(/)
> do
>    dest=/media/usbkey/$i
>    mkdir -p $i:h
>    cp -a $i /media/usbkey/$i
> done
>
> Phil.
>
>
This is less elegant but maybe more direct:


  find . -name target -type d -exec cp --parents -r '{}' /aWorking/temp \;

.... where 'target' is the name of the dir you're looking for and in 
this test case, I'm copying to /aWorking/temp/ from /aWorking/aJunk/

source tree:

pts/2 HP-y5-10-Debian1 root /aWorking/aJunk $ t
.
├── [ 12K]  one
│   └── [8.0K]  two
│       └── [4.0K]  target
├── [ 20K]  onea
│   └── [ 16K]  twoa
│       └── [ 12K]  threea
│           └── [8.0K]  target
│               ├── [   0]  file1
│               ├── [   0]  file2
│               ├── [   0]  file3
│               └── [4.0K]  subdir
│                   ├── [   0]  file1
│                   ├── [   0]  file2
│                   └── [   0]  file3
└── [ 20K]  oneb
     ├── [   0]  file1
     ├── [   0]  file2
     ├── [   0]  file3
     └── [ 16K]  twob
         └── [ 12K]  target
             ├── [   0]  file1
             ├── [   0]  file2
             ├── [   0]  file3
             └── [8.0K]  target
                 └── [4.0K]  target

   56K used in 13 directories, 12 files

target tree:

pts/2 HP-y5-10-Debian1 root /aWorking/temp $ t
.
├── [ 12K]  one
│   └── [8.0K]  two
│       └── [4.0K]  target
├── [ 20K]  onea
│   └── [ 16K]  twoa
│       └── [ 12K]  threea
│           └── [8.0K]  target
│               ├── [   0]  file1
│               ├── [   0]  file2
│               ├── [   0]  file3
│               └── [4.0K]  subdir
│                   ├── [   0]  file1
│                   ├── [   0]  file2
│                   └── [   0]  file3
└── [ 20K]  oneb
     └── [ 16K]  twob
         └── [ 12K]  target
             ├── [   0]  file1
             ├── [   0]  file2
             ├── [   0]  file3
             └── [8.0K]  target
                 └── [4.0K]  target

   56K used in 13 directories, 9 files

... correctly missing three files.