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How to replicate folder structure in windows using robocopy and other commands in linux
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Published

May 25, 2015

Hi, recently I’ve been working on some issues dealing with folders on windows and on linux. For instance, ## Replicate Folder Structure on Windows With robocopy is really easy:

robocopy "Source" "Target" /e /xf *

For example:

robocopy "C:\JiveCopy" . /e /xf *

Replicate folder structure on Linux

This requires a little bit of scripting, on bash it would be something like:

cd TARGET && (cd SOURCE; find . -type d ! -name .) | xargs -i mkdir -p "{}"

For instance:

cd /interfaces/client1 && (cd /interfaces/client_orig; find . -type d ! -name .) | xargs -i mkdir -p "{}"

Recently I had also the need to rename all folders containing a given pattern, that is done with the following script:

find . -iname "itfq*" -type d -execdir bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1//itfq/itfp}"' _ {} \;

This script renames all folders that contains itfq pattern to itfp.