GNU bug report logs - #9611
Copy an item with its parent directory

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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