copy a directory structure with file names without content

Question

I have a huge directory structure of movie files. For analysis of that structure I want to copy the entire directory structure, i.e. folders and files however I don\'t want

Answer 1

On ubuntu you can try:

cp -r --attributes-only  

It doesn't copy file data. From manpage of cp

--attributes-only
          don't copy the file data, just the attributes

Note: I'm not sure this option available for other distributions, if anybody can confirm please update the answer.