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Old 02-09-2020, 08:20 AM   #1
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Copy list of files from text file and retain directory structure?

I have a text file with installation location of firefox that i get with 'dpkg -L firefox'. In my home directory i created folder 'firefox1' and i want to copy the files from the list to that directory retaining the directory structure. How can i do that? I want to create chroot directory for firefox and run it from that directory. I am using debian.
 
Old 02-09-2020, 08:25 AM   #2
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there are several ways, like:
1. tar source | tar target
2. rsync
3. cp -r
4- etc
 
Old 02-09-2020, 08:25 AM   #3
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You can use tools like cp, tar, cpio, rsync. Since I don't see the list with the file names, I can't say more.
 
Old 02-09-2020, 08:46 AM   #4
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You can use tools like cp, tar, cpio, rsync. Since I don't see the list with the file names, I can't say more.
This is the list:

Code:
/.
/etc
/etc/firefox-esr
/etc/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.js
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/firefox
package diverts others to: /usr/bin/firefox.real
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/Throbber-small.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/application.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/blocklist.xml
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/chrome.manifest
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/crashreporter-override.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/formautofill@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/fxmonitor@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/screenshots@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/webcompat-reporter@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/webcompat@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/omni.ja
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/chrome.manifest
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/crashreporter
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/crashreporter.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults/pref
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/dependentlibs.list
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts/TwemojiMozilla.ttf
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1/libclearkey.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1/manifest.json
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gtk2
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gtk2/libmozgtk.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libfreeblpriv3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libfreeblpriv3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/liblgpllibs.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozavcodec.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozavutil.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozsandbox.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozsqlite3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozwayland.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnss3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssckbi.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssdbm3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssdbm3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssutil3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libplds4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsmime3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsoftokn3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsoftokn3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libxul.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/minidump-analyzer
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/omni.ja
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/pingsender
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/platform.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/plugin-container
/usr/lib/mime
/usr/lib/mime/packages
/usr/lib/mime/packages/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions
/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/share
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/control
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/presubj
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright
/usr/share/firefox-esr
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default64.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/debugger.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/devtools-client.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/devtools-startup.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox-branding.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/vendor.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/webide.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins/common
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins/common/debsearch.xml
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/firefox-esr-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firefox-esr
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/firefox-esr.1.gz
/usr/share/mozilla
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
/usr/bin/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/chrome
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/defaults
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-bin
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/syspref
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/firefox-esr.png
 
Old 02-09-2020, 08:48 AM   #5
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there are several ways, like:
1. tar source | tar target
2. rsync
3. cp -r
4- etc
This will not retain directory structure. Also, the files are not in one directory.
 
Old 02-09-2020, 08:50 AM   #6
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This will not retain directory structure.
That is false. Or at least please tell us how did you try to do that?
 
Old 02-09-2020, 09:19 AM   #7
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That is false. Or at least please tell us how did you try to do that?
I don't know how to do that from a text file that contain the list of files. That is why i am asking. I can copy directory and files one by one but this is not my goal.

For example this command copy the files but do not copy directory structure:

Code:
cat your_text_file | xargs cp -t /path/to/destination
Last edited by peter7089; 02-09-2020 at 09:24 AM.
 
Old 02-09-2020, 09:37 AM   #8
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Palemoon has a tarball that can be extracted and run from any folder.
http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/
Does Firefox have a download like that? That would be the way to do what you want. Doubt if it will run if you move those files to another dir. They may if you put $HOME in your $PATH.
Quote:
I want to create chroot directory
Oh ok.

Look at man cp -R -r
 
Old 02-09-2020, 09:43 AM   #9
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Or with tar

Code:
(cd /source/; tar -cf - ./*) | (cd /path/to/destination/; tar -xpf -)
 
Old 02-09-2020, 09:50 AM   #10
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Code:
mkdir ~/test

cd ~/palemoon

for i in *; do
    cp -r "$i" ~/test/
done

ls -l ~/test
total 104480
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      428 Feb  9 09:49 application.ini
drwxr-xr-x 7 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 browser
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users        0 Feb  9 09:49 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 3 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      127 Feb  9 09:49 dependentlibs.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 dictionaries
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users 10912528 Feb  9 09:49 icudt58l.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      899 Feb  9 09:49 libfreeblpriv3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   526872 Feb  9 09:49 libfreeblpriv3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users    59712 Feb  9 09:49 liblgpllibs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users  1834944 Feb  9 09:49 libmozavcodec.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   212488 Feb  9 09:49 libmozavutil.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   884280 Feb  9 09:49 libmozsqlite3.so
...
 
Old 02-09-2020, 09:51 AM   #11
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rsync has an exclude/include flag, tar also can work on a filelist (given by a file).
 
Old 02-09-2020, 10:53 AM   #12
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Or with tar

Code:
(cd /source/; tar -cf - ./*) | (cd /path/to/destination/; tar -xpf -)
I am trying to do that from list in a text file, and files are not in one directory:

Code:
/.
/etc
/etc/firefox-esr
/etc/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.js
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/firefox
package diverts others to: /usr/bin/firefox.real
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/Throbber-small.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/application.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/blocklist.xml
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/chrome.manifest
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/crashreporter-override.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/formautofill@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/fxmonitor@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/screenshots@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/webcompat-reporter@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/features/webcompat@mozilla.org.xpi
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/omni.ja
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/chrome.manifest
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/crashreporter
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/crashreporter.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults/pref
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/dependentlibs.list
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts/TwemojiMozilla.ttf
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1/libclearkey.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gmp-clearkey/0.1/manifest.json
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gtk2
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/gtk2/libmozgtk.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libfreeblpriv3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libfreeblpriv3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/liblgpllibs.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozavcodec.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozavutil.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozsandbox.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozsqlite3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozwayland.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnss3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssckbi.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssdbm3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssdbm3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libnssutil3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libplds4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsmime3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsoftokn3.chk
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libsoftokn3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/libxul.so
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/minidump-analyzer
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/omni.ja
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/pingsender
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/platform.ini
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/plugin-container
/usr/lib/mime
/usr/lib/mime/packages
/usr/lib/mime/packages/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions
/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/share
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/control
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/presubj
/usr/share/bug/firefox-esr/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright
/usr/share/firefox-esr
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default/default64.png
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/debugger.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/devtools-client.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/devtools-startup.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox-branding.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/vendor.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/webide.js
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins/common
/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/searchplugins/common/debsearch.xml
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/firefox-esr-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firefox-esr
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/firefox-esr.1.gz
/usr/share/mozilla
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
/usr/bin/firefox-esr
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/chrome
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/defaults
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-bin
/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/syspref
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firefox-esr.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/firefox-esr.png
 
Old 02-09-2020, 10:55 AM   #13
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Code:
mkdir ~/test

cd ~/palemoon

for i in *; do
    cp -r "$i" ~/test/
done

ls -l ~/test
total 104480
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      428 Feb  9 09:49 application.ini
drwxr-xr-x 7 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 browser
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users        0 Feb  9 09:49 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 3 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      127 Feb  9 09:49 dependentlibs.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 dictionaries
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 edit users     4096 Feb  9 09:49 icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users 10912528 Feb  9 09:49 icudt58l.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit users      899 Feb  9 09:49 libfreeblpriv3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   526872 Feb  9 09:49 libfreeblpriv3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users    59712 Feb  9 09:49 liblgpllibs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users  1834944 Feb  9 09:49 libmozavcodec.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   212488 Feb  9 09:49 libmozavutil.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 edit users   884280 Feb  9 09:49 libmozsqlite3.so
...
Again, i need to do that from a list in a text file, and the files are not in one directory.
 
Old 02-09-2020, 11:01 AM   #14
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I guess you could chain several utilities together to create the directories first. Then your cp will have a place to put them.

Code:
cat your_text_file \
    | xargs dirname \
    | sort \
    | uniq \
    | xargs -I {} sh -c 'test -d {} && echo mkdir -p ./{}/'

cat your_text_file \
    | xargs cp -t /path/to/destination
 
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Originally Posted by peter7089 View Post
Again, i need to do that from a list in a text file, and the files are not in one directory.
You've said this a few times.

You do realize a list which can be processed by the shell can come from a text file?

Are you having trouble understanding how to process a text file and use the data as entries in a list?
 
  


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