When working on a project last year, I had to migrate and sets of derivative images and associated text files from an internal server to a development server. The project requirements included the retention of the existing folder structure of any folders that contained a few extensions but did not require all of the files contained in the folders. I knew I could use rsync but wanted to see if there were other commands that would achieve the same result.<\/p>\n
Using the find command below from the origin directory, I was able to recursively find all folders that contained, the required files. For the example, I’ve only included .jpg and .txt but this could easily be extended. -iname is included to indicate that the extension should be case insensitive.<\/p>\n
$ find . -iname *.jpg -or -iname *.txt\u00a0<\/address>\nThe simple solution to migrating the files is a unix command on your mac.<\/p>\n
$ cpio<\/address>\nCPIO is a utility that archives files and their existing structure.In copy-pass mode, cpio<\/b> copies files and their folder structure without archiving. The options are described below.<\/p>\n
p indicates pass through mode <\/em><\/p>\n d makes directories<\/em><\/p>\n m preserves modification time <\/em><\/p>\n u replaces files unconditionally<\/em><\/p>\n Below is the combined find and cpio command which pipes the result of the find to cpio.<\/p>\n Simple, fast one line bash awesomeness.<\/p>\n