On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:05:22AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > I need to create an exact duplicate of a directory structure off one > server and replicate it on another. Only the directories need to be moved, > no files. The permissions should remain the same. How would I go about > doing this? You can do nice things with 'find'. You can run the following in the shell (or make a script out of it). DEST="destination dir"; find . -type d -printf "mkdir --parents --mode=%m \"${DEST}/%P\"; chown %u.%g \"${DEST}/%P\"\n" > tmp.sh This makes a file with the following lines which can then be sourced (executed) by the shell. Just transfer tmp.sh to your second server and run 'source tmp.sh'. I did a small test which resulted in the following file. mkdir --parents --mode=755 "destination dir/"; chown maurits.maurits "destination dir/" mkdir --parents --mode=755 "destination dir/a"; chown maurits.cdrom "destination dir/a" mkdir --parents --mode=755 "destination dir/a/b"; chown maurits.maurits "destination dir/a/b" mkdir --parents --mode=755 "destination dir/a/b/c"; chown maurits.maurits "destination dir/a/b/c" mkdir --parents --mode=751 "destination dir/m v r"; chown maurits.maurits "destination dir/m v r" I think that basically does what you need. It takes care of permissions and ownership. Else you can modify the parameters of 'find'. Let it start with 'find /' instead of 'find .' to do this for all your directories instead of just the current one. Of course you need to be root to make that work. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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