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.

Answer 1

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 -