Bash: Copy named files recursively, preserving folder structure

Question

I was hoping:

cp -R src/prog.js images/icon.jpg /tmp/package

would yield a symmetrical structure in the destination dir:

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Answer 1

Try...

for f in src/*.js; do cp $f /tmp/package/$f; done

so for what you were doing originally...

for f in `echo "src/prog.js images/icon.jpg"`; do cp $f /tmp/package/$f; done

or

v="src/prog.js images/icon.jpg"; for f in $v; do cp $f /tmp/package/$f; done