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» Directories and its size
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» Mass-renaming files
» Copy and paste from the command line
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The following command creates in the /usr/project directory, a copy of the current working directory structure:
find . -type d -print|sed 's@^\.\{0,1\}@/usr/project@' | sed 's/ /\\ /' | xargs mkdir -pComments
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find . -type d -print | cpio -pudmv /usr/project
That accomplishes the same thing with no string manipulation required.