tired of my bash/zsh misunderstandings, wrote a magnificent `cp -Rv` in python.

cprv.py

import os
import subprocess

def cmd(command):
    p = subprocess.Popen(command,
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                         stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    return iter(p.stdout.readline, b'')

def pre(path):
    if not os.path.isdir(path):
        os.mkdir(path)
    else:
        print("[%s] already exists, continuing." % path)

def clean(bstr):
    return bstr.decode().rstrip()

def esc(path):
    return path.replace('/','_')

def srcs(path):
    return [clean(r) for r in cmd(["find",path,"-type","d","-iname","src"])]

def arrows(srcs):
    """ (src,tgt) """
    return [{"src":s,"tgt":root+os.path.sep+esc(s)} for s in srcs]

def cmds(arrows):
    return [list(cmd(["cp","-R","-v",a['src'],a['tgt']])) for a in arrows]

# root/**/src > {src,tgt(?)} > cmd`cp -Rv ?src ?tgt`
# :done         :done            :todo
if __name__ == "__main__":
    base="/home/dummy/dev/coursera.scala/"
    root="/home/dummy/dev/coursera.scala/repos"
    # pre(root)
    # cmds(arrows(srcs(base)))