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Copy files to another directory containing the same directory structure in bash

I have the following directory structure: Each class contains the exact same directories, and the directories contain png files. What I want to do is copy the contents from dir1 to dir2 such that dir2 has the following format: For example: dir2/i/*.png should contain all the files in dir1/class1/i/*.png, dir1/class2/i/*.png, dir1/class3/i/*.png, etc… I have tried doing the following: But I

How to copy a file to all subdirectories?

How can I paste read-me.jpg file into all sub-directories? Here is a command to create a new file in all subdirectories. But I want to copy jpg file into all subdirectories instead. Directory List: already tried with this command but no output Answer You tried to redirect cp’s output into $dir but instead we should specify the destination $dir/read-me.jpg as

Why does the file in a subdirectory not get copied?

I have to make a script which will copy all files from a certain location starting with “db.” to another location. My script works fine for all files which are directly in the directory, but it doesnt copy any files which are in subdirectorys. I have used the parameter -r, which should copy everything recursivly or not? Why isnt it

“xargs -a file” to copy files to a folder

I am tring to use xargs -a to read the contents of a file that has a list of filenames in it. My directory working in looks like: File name with filenames in it: bakfiles.txt bakfiles.txt contents: So essentially I’m trying to copy file1.bak,file2.bak,file3.bak into the folder backups. But using the contents of bakfiles.txt to do so. I tried: But

All possible exit codes for cp

Looking at the man pages for cp, I only found that the command exits with 0 when copy succeeds with no error, and with a number greater than 0 on any error. However I couldn’t find any detailed description on specific exit codes mapped to specific cases. Is there such a description anywhere, is it even standardized, or each Unix/Linux

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