[ale] cp but maintaining path?

[Greg Freemyer]

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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