Dockerfile copy keep subdirectory structure

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I m trying to copy a number of files and folders to a docker image build from my localhost   The files are like this   folder1     file1     file2 folder2     file1     file2   I m trying to make the copy like this   COPY files    files    However  all files are placed in  files  is there a way in Docker to keep the subdirectory structure as well as copying the files into their directories

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To merge a local directory into a directory within an image  do this  It will not delete files already present within the image  It will only add files that are present locally  overwriting the files in the image if a file of the same name already exists   COPY   files    files

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Alternatively you can use a     instead of    as this will take all the files in the working directory  include the folders and subfolders   FROM ubuntu COPY     RUN ls -la

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Remove star from COPY  with this Dockerfile  FROM ubuntu COPY files   files  RUN ls -la  files    Structure is there    docker build   Sending build context to Docker daemon 5 632 kB Sending build context to Docker daemon  Step 0   FROM ubuntu  --- gt  d0955f21bf24 Step 1   COPY files   files   --- gt  5cc4ae8708a6 Removing intermediate container c6f7f7ec8ccf Step 2   RUN ls -la  files    --- gt  Running in 08ab9a1e042f  files folder1  total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 16 04   drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 16 05    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16 04 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16 04 file2   files folder2  total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 16 04   drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 16 05    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16 04 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16 04 file2  --- gt  03ff0a5d0e4b Removing intermediate container 08ab9a1e042f Successfully built 03ff0a5d0e4b

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If you want to copy a source directory entirely with the same directory structure  Then don t use a star     Write COPY command in Dockerfile as below  COPY   destinatio-directory

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