copy intermediate directories

Sometimes you would like to cp files under directories, which does not exist on target directory. Current cp command does support this kind of operation.

Suppose that you have a file, which contains list of files with directory. You can copy files in it, for example, as follows.

$ mkdir <TARGER_DIR>
$ while read LINE
> do
> cp -p --parents $LINE <TAGET_DIR>
> done < <INPUT_FILE>

You will see that directory strctures are automatically created under target directory.

So easy...

Please refer to gnu page for details.