Copy a Directory Along With Its Relative Path

Today, a friend of mine wanted to do this:

Copy a directory from path A to path B, preserving its relative path.

For example, if the directory is found at:

./old/path/of/dir

and we want to copy it to

./new/place/

We want the result look like this:

./new/place/old/path/to/dir

The trick is to use the –parents flag of the “cp” command. So this command will do the job:

1	cp -r --parents old/path/to/dir new/place/.

And we’re done.

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Bash

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My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
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