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How can I copy a subset of files from a directory while preserving the folder structure?

I have a bunch of directories like this: 

/Artists/Example Name 1/Images/Lo-res/ /Artists/Example Name 2/Images/Lo-res/ /Artists/Example Name 3/Images/Lo-res/

I want to use the cp command to copy all the contents of all of the "Lo-res" directories to another location while keeping their preceding directory structure (the name and images directories) intact.

I've been trying this

cp -R /Artists/*/Images/Lo-res /New_Location/

But that just copies all the files into one new Lo-res folder.

Can anyone help?

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  • That's what cp does. I think you need to use something else to get the effect you want, such as tar. Commented Nov 29, 2012 at 23:08
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    Check out rsync and its filter rules Commented Nov 29, 2012 at 23:10

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rsync -av /Artists/*/Images/Lo-res/ /New_location/

the trailing / characters on the source and destination directories are very important to rsync to attain the effect you want.

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