On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:13:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On the archive: >> >> find /root/of/dir/structure -type d > dirs.txt >> find /root/of/dir/structure -type f > files.txt > > This will add '/root/of/dir/structure' to the start of each path. would > it be better to do? > > cd /root/of/dir/structure > find -type d > ../dirs.txt > find -type f > ../files.txt
I see your path correction, and raise you: * whitespace-safe folders * Automatic copy to remote system. * Automatic new file and folder creation * Using those pretty xargs parameters. cd /root/of/dir/structure find . -type d -print0 > ~/dirs.txt find . -type d -print0 > ~/files.txt scp dirs.txt files.txt remote.system: ssh remote.system <<ENDSSH cd /root/of/new/structure cat ~/dirs.txt|xargs -0 mkdir -p cat ~/files.txt|xargs -0 touch ENDSSH -- :wq
