[ale] cp but maintaining path?

[timothy at meanor.net]

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>>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. 
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If I understand  you correctly, you have a directory structure similar to this:
/dir1/subdir1/file1
/dir2

and you want copy file1 to dir2, but maintaining the directory structure, so you end up with this:
/dir1/subdir1/file1
/dir2/subdir1/file1

but if there are other files in /dir1/subdir1, you don't necessarily want to copy them, so you can't just do "cd dir1;cp -pvR subdir1 /dir2".  Is that correct?

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>>cd dir1
>>tar -cf - $relative-path | (cd dir2; tar -xf -)
>>cd dir2
>>
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That's how I'd do it.  In some brief experimentation, I couldn't get rsync to create the directory structure underneath dir2 when I was specifying individual files (e.g. cd /dir1;rsync -va subdir1/file1 /dir2  puts file1 in /dir2, not /dir2/subdir1).  Perhaps I was missing something. 

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>>Thanks
>>Greg
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HTH
-Tim