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Old 08-11-2007
lorcan lorcan is offline
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A small correction blowtorch.

Code:
for file in *; do
   if [ -d $file ]; then
      mkdir $file/test; 
   fi
done
Since you had issued a cd command it would create the sub-dir only for the first directory. So the result would not be as expected.
Last edited by lorcan; 08-11-2007 at 08:51 AM..