[Solved] Creating Multiple Directories

nic2 · 03-28-2010, 12:28 PM

I need to create subdirectories in about 300 existing directories - the subdirectory will have the same name in all 300 existing directories.

How do I do this using the mkdir command using a regular expression or globbing?

kirukan · 03-28-2010, 01:57 PM

Try this

Quote:

#for n in *; mkdir -p $n/subdirectoryname; done

bastl · 03-28-2010, 02:25 PM

Write a shell script like:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
LIST=`ls -D`
for i in $LIST ;
do
	mkdir $i"/yourdir"
done

Change "yourdir" to the directory you want to be created in the subdirs
If you have also files in your directory you will get some errors that it is no directory.

nic2 · 03-29-2010, 10:51 AM

@bastl Script work like a charm, thank you