如何复制带有子文件夹的文件

Question

I have folder with subfolders and files inside. I want to copy all html files from all subfolders in main folder (parent) and have it in new folder (dist) with the same folder structure. (I am using Mac)

parent

subfolder1 - file1.html, file4.html
subfolder2 - file2.html
subfolder3 - file3.html

Expected result is dist folder with structure the same as in parent folder:

dist 

subfolder1 - file1.html, file4.html
subfolder2 - file2.html
subfolder3 - file3.html

I am using this command:

cp -R ./parent/templates/**/*.html ./dist/templates

But the result is templates folder filled up with.html files but no subfolders copied.

dist
file1.html
file2.html
file3.html
file4.html

So I am not sure how to do it.

Answer 1

how to do it.

With GNU cp you could try:

cd ./parent/templates/ &&
cp -R --parents **/*.html ../../dist/templates

But I would recommend to use rsync .