Tar only the Directory structure

Question

I want to copy my directory structure excluding the files. Is there any option in the tar to ignore all files and copy only the Directories recursively.

Accepted Answer

You can use find to get the directories and then tar them:

```
find .. -type d -print0 | xargs -0 tar cf dirstructure.tar --no-recursion
```

If you have more than about 10000 directories use the following to work around xargs limits:

```
find . -type d -print0 | tar cf dirstructure.tar --no-recursion --null --files-from -
```

Tar only the Directory structure

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