Linux – Using “touch” to create directories – create “shadow” copy of directories recursively

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In the "A" directory:
find . -type f > a.txt
In the "B" directory:
cat a.txt | while read FILENAMES; do touch "$FILENAMES"; done

Result: Step 2 "creates the files" (I mean only with the same filename, but with 0 Byte size) but if there are subdirs in the "A" directory, then step 2 can't create the files in the subdir, because there are no directories in it.

Question: Is there a way, that "touch" can create directories?

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quick shot:

while read FILENAME
do
  mkdir -p $(dirname "$FILENAME") && touch "$FILENAME"
done < a.txt

Be aware of special chars (whitespaces, ...) in file-/pathnames and so on ...

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Linux – create home directories after create users

This might sound like a silly idea, but if the users aren't actually doing anything, you could do:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -f 1 -d : >/tmp/users.list

Then edit /tmp/users.list to only contain the users you want. Then do:


for i in `cat /tmp/users.list`
do
    userdel $i
    useradd -m $i
done

However, many Redhat based distributions will create you a new home directory when you first login, providing it is specified in /etc/passwd where the directory should be.

To test that, do an "su - " and see if it does "the right thing". If it doesn't, the above script will work quite nicely, I think.

Linux SCP – Can SCP Copy Directories Recursively?

Yup, use -r:

scp -rp sourcedirectory user@dest:/path

-r means recursive
-p preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

Note: This creates the sourcedirectory inside /path thus the files will be in /path/sourcedirectory

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