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How can I recreate a directory structure, without the files?

With the cpio program:

    cd "$srcdir"
    find . -type d -print | cpio -pdumv "$dstdir"

or with GNU tar, and more verbose syntax:

    cd "$srcdir"
    find . -type d -print | tar c --files-from - --no-recursion | tar x --directory "$dstdir"

This creates a list of directory names with find, non-recursively adds just the directories to an archive, and pipes it to a second tar instance to extract it at the target location.

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-This creates a list of directory names with find, non-recursively adds just the directories to an archive, and pipes it to a second tar instance to extract it at the target location.
+This creates a list of directory names with {{{find}}}, non-recursively adds just the directories to an archive, and pipes it to a second {{{tar}}} instance to extract it at the target location.