title: How to copy/mirror files, but only as a placeholder with 0 file length?
body: <p>I have multiple external hard-drives with hundreds of files.</p>
  
  <p>I need to create an exact mirror of the directory/file structure of these hard-drives on my local machine, except instead of actual files, I just need a dummy placeholder file with the same name.</p>
  
  <p>Eg: Ext Hard Drive contains</p>
  
  <pre><code>A.doc 1MB
  B.doc 5MB
  C\x.doc 2MB
  
  magiccopy g: c:\test\*
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>should result int c:\test having</p>
  
  <pre><code>A.doc 0 bytes
  B.doc 0 bytes
  C\x.doc 0 bytes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I personally feel that this is actually a better way to search files stored across multiple hard drives without having to connect each one of them to see which one may actually contain the file.</p>
  
  <p>I can write a script or a C# program(Not sure what I write can be foolproof), but would prefer a utility or built-in function to do this. I'd appreciate any help</p>