PWD and TREE dir structure dump restore
 

I have two questions.

(1) When i change to a soft linked directory, i actually land up in a new location, but PWD command still shows, not the exact folder location but the soft link source folder only. How to see the actula present working Directory.

(2) I have a server, where i need to to take Dir Tree structure dump, only, as data is not of much important, but also, in time of scarctity, i will have to to immediately create all those dir struvcture as per the Tree command output. How would i be able to do it fast, as i have some thousand of (sub)(sub)(dir).


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Hi.

1) Use '/bin/pwd' instead of 'pwd' to get the real pathname.

2) Have a look at the 'install' command, and 'mkdir -p'. install will copy a file, and create all the parent directories as needed, mkdir -p will do the same sort of thing, but with directories.

Dave

You could also do something like
# find /path/to/tree -type d > dirlist
to get a list of the directories.
Then
# for dir in `cat dirlist`; do mkdir "$dir"; done
to recreate them.

Dave

$ pwd -P

will show the physical path.

The find command ilikejam mentions is perfect, but I saw situations where the command line got too long as the whole content of the directory listing will make one long shell line. It might be necsessary to call mkdir in smaller chunks (and keep the directory listing relative, i.e. avoiding the leading / to be included):

$ cd new_target_directory
$ (cd old_source_directory; find . -mindepth 1 -type d) | xargs -n 50 mkdir


-- Reuti

Thanks Dave and Reuti. The solution really helped me.

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