From f21cbfd5fbaf82208c40276912669a459d1128c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Q <q@moonq.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 08:38:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] copy folder structure only

---
 bin/cp-dir-struct   |  1 +
 files/cp-dir-struct | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 bin/cp-dir-struct
 create mode 100755 files/cp-dir-struct

diff --git a/bin/cp-dir-struct b/bin/cp-dir-struct
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..f91d809
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/cp-dir-struct
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../files/cp-dir-struct
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/files/cp-dir-struct b/files/cp-dir-struct
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ecd32fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/cp-dir-struct
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+set -e
+function helpexit() {
+    echo Usage: $( basename "$0" ) -v source[/]  target
+    echo Copy directory structure to a folder.
+    echo 'This command always recurses to subdirectories!'
+    echo '-v  verbose'
+    exit
+}
+
+VERBOSE=""
+for ((i=1; i<=${#@}; i++)) {
+    [[ "${!i}" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
+    [[ "${!i}" = "--help" ]] && helpexit
+    [[ "${!i}" = "-v" ]] && { VERBOSE="-v"; continue; }
+    [[ -z "$SRC" ]] && { SRC="${!i}"; continue; }
+    [[ -z "$TGT" ]] && { TGT="${!i}"; continue; }
+    echo Too many arguments
+    exit 1
+}
+
+is_subfolder=1
+if [[ "${SRC: -1}" = "/" ]]; then
+  is_subfolder=0
+fi
+
+src_abs=$( realpath "$SRC" )
+tgt_abs=$( realpath "$TGT" )
+src_base=$( basename "$src_abs" )
+
+if [[ $is_subfolder -eq 1 ]]; then
+  tgt_abs+="/$src_base"
+fi
+
+find "$SRC" -mindepth 1 -type d -printf "$tgt_abs/%P\0" | while read -d $'\0' file; do
+  mkdir -p $VERBOSE "$file"
+done
+