How to copy specific subdirectories to a new directory?

Question

I am trying to copy specific subdirectories (and the files contained in them) to a new directory. Assuming I am in the first directory (dir0/), this contains a number of subdirectories named 000/, 001/, 002/, ... and so on. Each of these subdirectories contains 1000 sub-subdirectories, with files inside them. One example could be: dir0/000/aaa/file1.txt or dir0/001/bbb/file2.txt.

I have a .txt file containing a list of the subdirectories to copy (I only have the name of the subdirectories, not the full path), so, for the example above, my txt file will contain this information:

aaa
bbb

Is there a way to copy all the subdirectories whose names are included in the txt file to a new directory using bash or python?

Thank you for your help. I am new to both bash and python.

Answer 1

Assuming that, as you said in the comments, the names in the text file are unique, that there will only be one subdirectory with that name in the entire directory tree, then you can simply do (in bash):

while read -r dirName; do
    cp -r dir0/*/"$dirName"/ /path/to/newTargetDir
done < listOfDirs.txt