advanced options in cp

[IAMTubby]

Hey,
How do you copy something from source to destination, even if the path to destination doesn't currently exist and it has to be made on the fly ?



$cp CopyThisFile.txt /This/Path/Has/To/Be/Made/


Something like the -p option in mkdir.

Thanks.

[raja.genupula]

This is what i think you are asking


-P, --parents
Preserve intermediate directories in source. The last argument must be the name of an existing directory. For example, the command:
cp --parents jphekman/book/ch1 newdir
copies the file jphekman/book/ch1 to the file newdir/jphekman/book/ch1, creating intermediate directories as necessary.