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From: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: copying to a deep parallel directory
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:00:29 +0000 (UTC)
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>> Say I want to copy a file from
>> 
>> /var/www/html/admin/include/
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> /var/www/live/admin/include/
>> 

> cp <file> ${PWD/html/live}
> 
> This syntax gets a bit messy if you're changing multiple levels
> since you need to quote the slashes.
> 
> pws
> 

Thanks that's cute, I will so be using this! 
JWTDO

zzapper