[SOLVED] copy and create parent dirs
by ychaouche from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56SJE)
Dear LQ,
Say you want to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo inside of another directory (a jail, for context, but that's irrelevant), say /var/www/clients/client1/web5/, but you want to create all the parents of zoneinfo inside that destination directory, so you'd end up having the contents inside /var/www/clients/client1/web5/usr/share/zoneinfo, all the parent directories have to be created.
Is there a way to achieve this in one command ? (cp or rsync with some options maybe ?)
I know you can always do a mkdir -p /var/www/clients/client1/web5/usr/share/zoneinfo beforehand but I was just curious to know if this can be achieved otherwise by a relevant copy command
Say you want to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo inside of another directory (a jail, for context, but that's irrelevant), say /var/www/clients/client1/web5/, but you want to create all the parents of zoneinfo inside that destination directory, so you'd end up having the contents inside /var/www/clients/client1/web5/usr/share/zoneinfo, all the parent directories have to be created.
Is there a way to achieve this in one command ? (cp or rsync with some options maybe ?)
I know you can always do a mkdir -p /var/www/clients/client1/web5/usr/share/zoneinfo beforehand but I was just curious to know if this can be achieved otherwise by a relevant copy command