{"id":691,"date":"2013-01-02T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:05:06","slug":"a-new-year-a-new-directory-structure-for-my-paperless-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2013\/01\/02\/a-new-year-a-new-directory-structure-for-my-paperless-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year, a new folder structure for my paperless office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I run into the same problem. I need to replicate the directory or folder structure of my previous&#8217; year&#8217;s administration folder to use it for the new year.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember <a title=\"My paperless office\" href=\"http:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/2011\/09\/13\/my-paperless-office\/\">my post on my paperless office<\/a> (which has changed slightly, later more), I have a directory structure for my company administration to easily retrieve incoming and outgoing invoices and other paper mail which I want to keep available in a digital archive.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what happens every year is that I forgot how I did it the year before, run to Google and type in &#8220;copy directory structure&#8221; and find always on top a <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/171629\/copy-directory-structure-without-copying-files-on-mac-os-x\" target=\"_blank\">purple link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read all the options, but I always only need one of these in a Terminal window:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>user@osx:~\/from$ find . -type d -exec mkdir -p ~\/to\/{} \\;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>user@osx:~\/from$ find . -type f -exec ln -s ~\/from\/{} ~\/to\/{} \\;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<pre><code>user@osx:~\/from$ find . -type f -exec touch ~\/to\/{} \\;<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All credits go to <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/171629\/copy-directory-structure-without-copying-files-on-mac-os-x\" target=\"_blank\">whitequark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I run into the same problem. I need to replicate the directory or folder structure of my previous&#8217; year&#8217;s administration folder to use it for the new year. If you remember my post on my paperless office (which has changed slightly, later more), I have a directory structure for my company administration to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2013\/01\/02\/a-new-year-a-new-directory-structure-for-my-paperless-office\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[272,274,168,273],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wouter.shush.com\/files\/2013\/01\/IMG_4677.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2IjO0-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2011\/09\/13\/my-paperless-office\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"My paperless office","author":"wooter","date":"13\/09\/11","format":false,"excerpt":"Since 2008, I try to live with a nearly paperless office. 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