Copy structure of dirs with files from file.txt

mechmati

11/1/22, 4:54 PM

I take output from this command to file.txt and have list of dirs.

find /path/ -type d > dirs.txt

Then I use next command to make this dirs in other location:

xargs mkdir -p < dirs.txt

Everythin work propably, but now I want to copy dirs with files from txt file to new location. What I should use to take thems?

For example

I got 2 trees of files in /path/dir

dir1
├── 1
│   └── file1
├── 2
│   └── file1
├── 3
│   └── file1
├── 4
│   └── file1
├── 5
    └── file1

dir2
├── 1
├── 2
├── 5

And I want take this structure of dir2 to file.txt and then copy dirs with files from dir1 to other location

0 + 4

command-line

bash

HuHa

11/1/22, 6:06 PM

Use `rsync` instead. I only today explained it [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1349296/copy-files-based-on-date-with-structure-of-directories/).

mechmati

11/1/22, 7:12 PM

I don't understand how use this `rsync` to take only specified files from dir1 using dir2

HuHa

11/1/22, 8:06 PM

There is the `--files-from=FILE` command line option, and there is the opposite `--exclude=...` option.

mechmati

11/2/22, 5:12 AM

Thanks! I got this: `rsync -a /source/directory --files-from=/full/path/to/listfile /destination/directory`

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Copy structure of dirs with files from file.txt

TH: คัดลอกโครงสร้างของ dirs ด้วยไฟล์จาก file.txt

RO: Copiați structura directorilor cu fișiere din file.txt

RU: Скопируйте структуру каталогов с файлами из файла file.txt

VI: Sao chép cấu trúc của các thư mục với các tệp từ file.txt

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