How to change folder name when copying?

Question

linux

I write "cp -r mydir anotherdir". In this case, I get "anotherdir/mydir", but how can I make it, for example, get "anotherdir/mydir2" ?
And how can I make it so that if this folder where I copy does not exist, then let it be created (including recursively - there is a folder structure). I know that you can do "mkdir -p dir1 / dir2 / dir3" but if suddenly cp has an option for this, then it would be better to do without an extra command.

Answer 1

I write "cp -r mydir anotherdir". In this case, I get "anotherdir/mydir", but how can I make it, for example, get "anotherdir/mydir2" ?

if there is no mydir2 folder, then mydir will be renamed to mydir2 during copying;
if the mydir2 folder exists, then mydir will be copied to the mydir2 directory.
If you need to transfer the contents of the folder from mydir to the existing mydir2, then:
cp -r mydir/* anotherdir/mydir2

Answer 2

unix-tut.blogspot.com/2008/08/cp.html

Answer 3

find . -regex ".*\.\(jpg\|jpeg\|gif\|png\|JPG\|JPEG\|GIF\|PNG\)" -print0 | xargs -0 cp --parents --target-directory ./tmp/backup

So you can copy the pictures while maintaining the structure.
All you have to do is rename the files along the way.