Copy folders

pacolotero · 09-09-2014, 10:44 AM

I have this directory structure

/home/user/.maildir
/home/user2/.maildir
.
.
.
/home/usern/.maildir

I would like copy only the user folder and his .maildir to /home/backup with his result: (the users have other files in his home but only want copy .maildir)

/home/backup/user/.maildir
/home/backup/user2/.maildir
.
.
.
/home/backup/usern/.maildir

Germany_chris · 09-09-2014, 10:59 AM

is the cp command not working?

pacolotero · 09-09-2014, 11:05 AM

I try with this but not work
find -name '*maildir*' -exec cp -r {} /home/backup/{} \;