On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:38, the famous Bill Warner wrote:
> I was doing something almost exaclty the same as this.
>
> I was duplicating directory structures and hardlinking files for use
> with nfs root filesystems.
>
> these were the commands I came up with:
>     cd /$backupdir
>     find ../$sourcedir -type d | cut -c 13-256 |xargs mkdir

You could also do this
cd $sourcedir
find . -type d | cut -c3- | sed 's/^/\/tmp\/projects\//g' | xargs mkdir 
			I'm getting better with regex :)

I know understand the use of xargs in this example but it still doesn't help 
me..  :)

Later

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Steven M. Klass
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