By fkutev22
I want to recreate my folder structure without copying the current files in the folder.
Is this possible with somesort of a command or should I do it manually folder by folder?
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Hi @fkutev,
You can use just the find command. Here is how I would do it
find . -type d > dirs
Once you have your directories in the dirs file, you can make execute the following command to actually create them
xargs mkdir -p < dirs
This will create the directories you wish.
Regards, KDSys
I’ve just found out a small bug in the above commands. If you have spaces in your directory names, the above won’t work properly.
In such a case, you can actually use the following :
find . -type d -print0 >dirs
As soon as the above has finished execute :
xargs -0 mkdir -p <dirs
Regards, KDSys
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