Creating runtime directory structure while copying files on unix

[skuthe]

Hi,
I am trying to clean files from various directories and copy them under "cleaned" directory, but I want to create the directory structure of the cleaned file under the cleaned directory at runtime.

F.eg: I cleaned a file using SED command as below..

sed 's/\/users\/ciimdrp/g' $fname > /users/ciimdrp/cleaned/$fname.
The value of $fname here is ./aop/sqr/test.txt
After cleaning the file, if the ./aop/sqr does not exists under the /users/ciimdrp/cleaned directory then the program must create that directory under the cleaned dir path and copy the file there else just copy the file or overwrite the existing file.
I hope I have conveyed properly what I am looking for !.

Thank you in advance.

 

[xmb]

#!/bin/bash

# general purpose simple backup
backup() {
  local from=$1 to=$2 cut=$3; shift 3
  local IFS=$'\x02' # should not appear in filenames
  [[ $cut == same ]] && cut=$from

  while read src dst; do
    echo $src --\>\> "$to/$dst"
    
    [[ $do_cp ]] && {
      [[ ! -d $to/$dst ]] && mkdir -p $to/$dst
      ${cp=cp} -a "$src" "$to/$dst/" || { echo failed; return 1; }
    }
  done < <( find $from -type f |
    awk -v SEP="$IFS" -v cut="$cut" '{ printf "%s%s", $0, SEP
      sub(cut, ""); sub(/\/[^\/]+$/, "/"); print }' )
}

backup /tmp
do_cp=1 backup /lib /tmp/test same

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[PHV]

man dirname
man mkdir

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