files

Copy Directory Structure

August 25, 2022

Here’s how to copy a directory structure from one directory to another without the files.

Copy directory structure of DIR1 to DIR2.

find /DIR1 -type d > /tmp/dirs.txt
sed -i 's/DIR1/DIR2/' /tmp/dirs.txt 
xargs mkdir -p < /tmp/dirs.txt
chown -R USER:GROUP /DIR2

January 31, 2022

Here’s how to download/upload files using gcloud compute scp.

Make sure you are authenticated.

gcloud auth login

How to download.

gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a \
--internal-ip

How to upload.

gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a \
--internal-ip

December 31, 2021

How to zip multiple files into one zip file.

Using zip.

zip test.zip *.txt

Using tar.

tar cvzf test.tar.gz *.txt

Untar in current directory or specify another directory.

tar xvzf test.tar.gz .
tar xvzf test.tar.gz -C /path/to/dir