Copy Folders Recursively: Shell - shell

Question

My code takes two arguments from the user. My goal is to find the folder given by the user (the first argument) and make as many copies as they want of it (the second argument). As of right now, my code recursively prints out all subdirectories and files within the subdirectories... My code also copies files as many times as the user specifies. However, that's my problem, my copy function only works on files and not folders... I am wondering how to modify my copy function (or any other part of the code) so that it recursively copies the specified folder along with all of its original content
I know my cp function towards the bottom of the code needs to be changed to
-r ./sourceFolder ./destFolder but I do not know how to do that given the arguments passed in. After all, the destination folder name will just be the original folder with an incrementing number at the end of it.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Your folder name is $1 and the number of copies is $2. Press Y for yes N for no " -n 1 -r
if ! [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
echo
echo "Rerun script and pass in the folder and how many copies yo would like (e.g folder 4)"
exit
fi
echo
echo "-------------COPY FILE----------------"
FOLDER=$1
for f IN $folder
do
if [ ! -f "$FOLDER" ]
then
echo "folder "$FOLDER" does not exist"
exit 1
fi
done
DIR="."
function list_files()
{
cd $1
echo; echo "$(pwd)":; #Display Directory name
for i in *
do
if test -d "$i" #if dictionary
then
list_files "$i" #recursively list files
cd ..
else
echo "$i"; #Display File name
fi
done
}
j=$2
for i in "$*"
do
DIR=$1
list_files "$DIR"
for ((i=1; i<J; i++))
do
cp "$1" "$1$i"; #copies the file i amount of times, and creates new files with names that increment by 1
done
shift 1
done

Answer 1

If you want to copy recursive you can use cp -r <source folder> <destination folder>.
This will copy the content of the source file to the destination folder.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Your folder name is $1 and the number of copies is $2. Press Y for yes N for no " -n 1 -r
if ! [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
echo
echo "Rerun script and pass in the folder and how many copies yo would like (e.g folder 4)"
exit
fi
echo
echo "-------------COPY FILE----------------"
FOLDER=$1
if [ ! -d "$FOLDER" ]
then
echo "folder $FOLDER does not exist"
exit 1
fi
j=$2
for ((i=1; i<=j; i++))
do
cp -r "$1" "$1$i"; #copies the file i amount of times, and creates new files with names that increment by 1
echo "folder $1 copied to $1$i"
done
I changed the folder check from -f to -d, changed the variable nameing a bit (case), removed the list_files function and changed in the last for loop the i<$j to i<=j because the loop starts with 1. Then I added the -r and it works.