How to find and recursively copy files on debian?

Question

linux

Faced a problem. Trying to copy only new files recursively to another directory. I got to this line:
find /dir1 -mtime -1 | xargs cp -t /dir2/;

But the problem is that some files may be in subfolders (for example /dir1/folder1/folder2) then they need to be copied to /dir2/folder1/folder2, but everything is copied to the heap, i.e. to /dir2

Using with the -r switch copies all files in general (regardless of their modification date). Who will tell you what is wrong?

Answer 1

You should use not naked find, but find + rsync (examples are easy to google).

Answer 2

Here is an example

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

All you need to add -mmin or -mtime
create all directories along the way