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Copy an item with its parent directory

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From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Copy an item with its parent directory
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:23:33 -0500

Hi,

Suppose I have a file 'a/b/c/d/e/f', I want to copy it to 'target'
with the parent 'd/e'. I.e., the resulted file is 'target/d/e/f'.

I can make a bash script to do so, but I wondering if there is an
existing command or option. Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Peng

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9611-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9611: Copy an item with its parent directory
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:29:07 +0100

tags 9611 notabug

On 09/27/2011 02:23 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Suppose I have a file 'a/b/c/d/e/f', I want to copy it to 'target'
> with the parent 'd/e'. I.e., the resulted file is 'target/d/e/f'.
> 
> I can make a bash script to do so, but I wondering if there is an
> existing command or option. Thanks!
> 

(cd a/b/c && cp --parents d/e/f /path/to/target)

cheers,
Pádraig.

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