Hello All,

I am a newbie to Linux but liking it a lot. I have a question which has been in part answered many times but nothing I found relateds completely to my situation. I am sure there will be people who will say RTFM but believe me I did, and searched as well but to no avail.

I have a situation where I want to copy files created withing last hour in one directory into another one. The problem is that that the directories are on different levels in the dir tree so the absolute path is different. But I want to keep the relative path the same.

Example:
I want to copy new files from /mnt/path_to_webdav/user to /home/user. so if there is new file /mnt/path_to_webdav/user/doc/xy.txt I want it to be copied to /home/user/doc/xy.txt. Also if there is a new dir, say /mnt/path_to_webdav/user/newdir I want a new dir to be created in /home/user/newdir with all the files in it, should there be any.

I can do find with exec and copy all the files into one directory. This is not what I want though. How do I preserve the relative path and get the files copied into their corresponding directories?

Thanks a lot for your help.

rsync may be the answer to your problem.

Here's a link to an example solution. http://www.linuxdynasty.org/using-rs...es-around.html