I was wondering if there was any way to copy a bunch of directories, but not the files under them. I have a bunch of directories I need to copy over and in each directory are three files, but I only want one of those files. Is there any varation of the cp command or any other command that can do this.

off the top of my head i would say no, at least not w/ cp. You could get a little creative and write a shell script to do it for you, it wouldnt that long, and pretty easy to write using any scripting language.

With the "find" command you will be able to do it. something like: find /dir1 -maxdepth 2 -name "filename" -exec cp -R {} /dir2{} \;

I do this all the time. Use this: find <your directory> -type d | cpio -pdumv <target directory> only the directories will be copied. no files. Good Luck, Denny