Question

I’m trying to copy a directory structure(not the files) for backup and migration. I’ve been searching all over but I don’t quite know how to phrase my search to get the results I want. I keep finding people mentioning the following commands the second being closest to what I am trying to get. I need to make sure it runs in KSH and BASH.

ls -Rl |egrep '^d'
and
find / -type d -print

An example of the file structure and how I’d like to get a list of all the lowest(?) directories with their full path prefix.

/var/www
└── site
    ├── dir1
    │   ├── dir11
    │   ├── dir12
    │   ├── dir13
    │   │   └── dir131
    │   └── dir14
    ├── dir2
    └── dir3
        ├── dir31
        └── dir32
            └── dir321
                ├── dir3211
                └── dir3212

##### Will generate the following list. #####

/var/www/site/dir1/dir11
/var/www/site/dir1/dir12
/var/www/site/dir1/dir13/dir131
/var/www/site/dir1/dir14
/var/www/site/dir2
/var/www/site/dir3/dir31
/var/www/site/dir3/dir32/dir321/3211
/var/www/site/dir3/dir32/dir321/3212

Thank you,
LF4

Answer 1

Doing ls -R | grep ./ will give the list of all directories and subdirectories and could be fed into something else which will mkdir for all the entries.

This assumes you are in the directory /var/www/html. You could alter the grep so that instead of ./ it uses /var/www/html or whatever.