need to careate archive od only the directory
 

I want to create an archive of directory structure. and I have tried to pipe the output of find command as fallows but it is not working

find ./123/ -type d | tar -cvf 123.tar

Can some one tell me how to do this. All I need is the empty directories

Why can't you just do:

EDIT: I just re-read, and I think you were actually saying you just want to DIRECTORIES, not the file inside them...?

A few remarks:
1. Don't pass a directory and all it's subdirectories to "tar". If you give it the (top-level) directory to archive, then it'll go through all files/subdirectories recursively.
So, in your case, you only need to do:
2. If you only want empty directories (so bare directory tree), without any regular files, you first need to either remove all regular files (ie run "find 123 -type f -exec rm {} \;" ) or to create a copy of your directory structure (without copying the files). The latter can be done for instance by running:
Check your results via a "tar -tvf 123.tar".

You could create an identical directory structure in another directory and then tar that.

mkdir 123tardir
find 123/ -type d -exec mkdir ../123tardir/'{}' \;
cd 123tardir
tar cvf ../123.tar .

Hi Guys Thank you for you'r help. What I wanted was to take a empty directory structure to a another machine and create it there (directories only). I was able to do this by using

Create the directory tree

1) find . -type d -depth -print |cpio -ovcB > dir-tree.cpio


Extract - Only Directory Tree

2) cpio -icvBdum < dir-tree.cpio

Best regards

Asanka