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Malice

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From: Poland

Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 50

How to copy folders without their content

Hello,
I have 50 folders in ~/x. I want to copy these folders to ~/y, but without their content(so ls would show the same list in both ~/x and ~/y, but files in ~/y are empty).
I looked in man and --help, but I can't find the answer.
Thanks in advance!

lcafiero

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From: Felton, California, USA

Registered: 2011-07-21

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Re: How to copy folders without their content

Is this what you're trying to do?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ts-722330/

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Malice

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From: Poland

Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 50

Re: How to copy folders without their content

Not sure. Figured out how IRC works, so case is solved.

I first made cp -r ~/a/* ~/b
Then, I used rm ~/b/*/*

So effectively, I first copied all folder from one directory to other, and then deleted it's content.  I don't know I could have done it easier, but this solution worked. Anyway, thanks for help!:)

moetunes

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Registered: 2012-10-06

Posts: 75

Re: How to copy folders without their content

Something like

for f in $(ls ~/a); do mkdir ~/b/$f; done

would do what you want.

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

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Re: How to copy folders without their content

rsync (In the thread Lcafiero linked) seems the neatest way.

rsync --dirs ~/x/ ~/y

@moetunes:

for ... ls ...

will likely break if any folders have spaces in the names.

Last edited by johnraff (2013-11-06 12:11:35)

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iann

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Registered: 2010-09-10

Posts: 720

Re: How to copy folders without their content

Could also use find . -type d -exec ...