Comments on: 16 Useful ‘cp’ Command Examples for Linux Beginners

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 03 May 2021 00:22:54 +0000

I’m looking for a way to take a directory listing and > to a cp or rsync maybe using awk and & so that if I have 100 files in a directory it will spawn 100 threads. I’ve done this with a bash script before… ls > quickcopy then vi and add cp or rsync commands and an & to background, chmod +x and let it fly but it would seem that there would be a way to just do this from command line. It would also be nice to wrap it in a nice -5 and a time command. I mean it seems like there would be a command like this already built for times when you are trying to make 20 copies of flash drives for your whole extended family of 500 old pictures. Or a server. Yeah. Or for files on a server. I did it when I was working in seismic… Same thing.

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:10:40 +0000

In reply to MANBAHADUR.

Hi Manbahadur,

If I understand your query correctly, You want to create same directory structure skipping the files. You can achieve this by running below rsync command

$ rsync -av -f”+ */” -f”- *” /home/linuxtechi/Documents /home/pkumar/Documents

In the above command, first one is the source path of directory and second one is the target path where we want to sync directory structure.

By: MANBAHADUR

MANBAHADUR — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:30:14 +0000

how to copy only directory data not files. what should I follow

By: RSYDW

RSYDW — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:08:19 +0000

Good article,helpful.

By: Bob Crochelt

Bob Crochelt — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:20:40 +0000

Thanks. This is very helpful