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[FragMax]genesis

10-12-2006 12:32 AM

Create a subfolder in several folders

Hey guys,

I have a situation where I need to create a subfolder called "subfolder" under several folders with different names.

I tried mkdir *\subfolder, it errors out on the ones that already have "subfolder" but does not really create the subfolder for the ones that don't have it.

Any help is appreciated.

gen.

chrism01

10-12-2006 01:13 AM

One way is to put list of dirs in a file eg dir.lst, then:

Code:

for dir in `cat dir.lst`

do

    mkdir ${dir}/subdir

done

cs-cam

10-12-2006 10:59 AM

Another way if the list isn't too huge:

Code:

# notice i skipped dir3 & dir6 - you said it existed in some

mkdir /path/to/{dir1,dir2,dir4,dir5,dir7}/subfolder

[FragMax]genesis

10-13-2006 09:17 PM

There's a lot of folders, so how do I create a list of folders? Are they supposed to be one per line or delimited....?

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