Copy folder structure (without files) from one location to another

You could do something like:

find . -type d > dirs.txt

to create the list of directories, then

xargs mkdir -p < dirs.txt

to create the directories on the destination.

cd /path/to/directories &&
find . -type d -exec mkdir -p -- /path/to/backup/{} \;

Here is a simple solution using rsync:

rsync -av -f"+ */" -f"- *" "$source" "$target"

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