copy /proc folder

2019-03-18 1 min read bash Learning Linux

Other day, I was trying to copy the proc folder with following command:

tar cvzf /tmp/proc.tgz /proc

and I found out that all the files in tar were empty. Strange it may seem but lot of people are facing this as /proc is not a regular filesystem, so I wrote a quick script to copy the proc folder. Here is the script:

cd /
mkdir /tmp/proc
[[ -z $1 ]] && exit -1
find /proc/$1/ -not -name pagemap | while read F ; do
    D=/tmp/$F
    if [[ -d $F ]]
    then
        echo "$(ls -ld $F) => Directory"
        mkdir -p $D
    fi
    if [[ -L $F ]]
    then
        echo "$(ls -ld $F) => copied"
        cp -P $F /tmp/$F
        
    elif [[ -f $F ]]
    then
        echo "$(ls -ld $F) => Cat"
        cat $F > /tmp/$F
    else
        echo "Dont know $F"
    fi
done
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