On Linux, I have a –parents option available for the cp command so I can do
cp --parents test/withintest/go.rb test2
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cp-invocation.html
On Mac, I do not have this option available. Is there a way to do this on Mac? Why is this option not available?
PS. The purpose of –parents is the following:
‘–parents’ Form the name of each destination file by appending to the
target directory a slash and the specified name of the source file.The last argument given to cp must be the name of an existing
directory.For example, the command:
cp --parents a/b/c existing_dir
copies the file a/b/c to existing_dir/a/b/c, creating any missing intermediate directories.
Answer
This bothered me quite a lot as well.
A workaround for this could be to use rsync.
rsync -R test/withintest/go.rb test2
has the same effect as cp --parents
and OS X comes standard with rsync.
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