I have Eclipse projects and ".project" file in them, the directory structure looks like '`myProject/.project`'. I want to copy these '.project' files to another directory, but I want the enclosing directory name to be preserved.

Let's say I have '`a/myProject/.project`', I want to copy '`myProject/.project`' to '`b`', so it be '`b/myProject/.project`', but '`b/myProject`' doesn't exist. When I try in a: 

```
 cp -r ./myProject/.project ../b

```

it copies only '.project' file itself, without 'myProject' directory. Please advise.