Copy folder structure (without files) from one location to another

Question

I am trying to create a clone of the structure of our multi-terabyte file server. I know that cp --parents can move the file and its parent structure, but is there any way to copy my directory structure intact?

I want to copy to the Linux system and our file server is CIFS mounted there.

Answer 1

You can do something like:

find . -type d > dirs.txt

to create a list of directories, then

xargs mkdir -p < dirs.txt

to create the directories on a destination.

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