another shell question..., using mkdir

haora · 04-06-2005, 02:22 PM

Hi all, my problem is as follows:

I have a set of .zip files..., and what I want to do, is to create a folder for each file, the folder will be named like this: "filename"_dir (adding the "_dir" string)

But I can't seem to be able to do this using mkdir, what I do is:

mkdir `grep -l '.zip' *`_dir

What I'm I doing wrong???

Thanks in advance....

Fernando

rose_bud4201 · 04-06-2005, 02:44 PM

Perhaps try

for i in `ls | grep .zip | tr ".zip" "_dir"`; do mkdir $i; done

Code:

[lthurber@hostname ~/testing]$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff1.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff2.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff3.zip
[lthurber@hostname ~/testing]$ for i in `ls | grep .zip | tr ".zip" "_dir"`; do mkdir $i; done
[lthurber@hostname ~/testing]$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff1.zip
drwxr-xr-x    2 lthurber users          48 Apr  6 15:43 stuff1_dir
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff2.zip
drwxr-xr-x    2 lthurber users          48 Apr  6 15:43 stuff2_dir
-rw-r--r--    1 lthurber users           0 Apr  6 15:41 stuff3.zip
drwxr-xr-x    2 lthurber users          48 Apr  6 15:43 stuff3_dir

Edit: I just had a thought - I assumed that you wanted "filename".zip to become "filename"_dir - in other words, the directory name should not include the ".zip" part. If I'm mistaken and you really wanted "filename.zip_dir", try this:

for i in `ls | grep .zip`; do k="_dir"; mkdir $i$k; done

Hope that helps!

enemorales · 04-06-2005, 02:48 PM

I think that you are trying to concatenate the full result of the glob (*zip) with _dir. You could try something like

Code:

for i in *zip; do mkdir ${i}_dir; done

Or, if you want to replace the .zip for _dir, you could also do something like

Code:

for i in *zip; do mkdir ${i%.zip}_dir; done

rose_bud4201 · 04-06-2005, 02:51 PM

enemorales beat me to it the "conctenate _dir onto the whole filename" solution. I think we've got the same solution, though his is written more elegantly

homey · 04-06-2005, 03:02 PM

The directories will be created when you unzip the files but if you want to go ahead, try this..

Code:

for i in *.zip; do mkdir `basename "$i" .zip`; done

haora · 04-06-2005, 03:21 PM

Wow, thanks, I didn't know I could use "for" in the command line....

Thanks again!

Fernando