On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Daniel Underwood < daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

Suppose I have the following:

data
|-- 1
|   |-- 0index.html
|   |-- 0index2.html
|   |-- 1.txt
|   |-- 2.txt
|   |-- 3.txt
|   |-- 4.txt
|   |-- 5.txt
|   |-- 6.txt
|   `-- file.dat
`-- 2
|-- 1.txt
|-- 2.txt
|-- 3.txt
|-- 4.txt
`-- file.dat

And I want to copy this entire directory (data/) to another location,
except for the fact that I only want to copy: (1) all directories and
(2) each "file.dat" file.  So, the result copied to another location
should be the following:

data
|-- 1
|   `-- file.dat
`-- 2
`-- file.dat

Without writing a script to walk the entire directory and check each
item before deciding whether to copy it to the destination directory,
how can I easily do this?  Could I somehow recreate only the directory
structure and then find the file.dat's and pipe them to an xargs copy
command?

TIA guys...
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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
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web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/