04-25-2011
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Originally Posted by
YukonAppleGeek
EDIT: After making all folders have 3 levels it took 23 min so maybe not 99 deep configurable deepness if posable?
That's a very good call. I'm not sure the universe is up to creating that many directories. 99 levels of 99 directories in 99 directories is a LOT of directories: 99^99 = 3.69729638 × 10^197
Allowing for the creation of one directory per nanosecond (unrealistically swift, 99^3 in 23 minutes is nearly 1.5 milliseconds) and suspending all other physical limitations, it would take:
99^99 * 10^-9 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365 = 1.17240499 × 10^181 years
Many, many, many orders of magnitude beyond current estimates of the universe's age.
As to your original problem, a recursive shell function would probably be the simplest approach.
Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-26-2011 at 12:08 AM..
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NAME
mkdirp(), rmdirp() - create, remove directories in a path
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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rmdirp removes directories in path d. This removal starts at the end of the path and moves back toward the root as far as possible. If an
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To use these interfaces, link in the libgen library by specifying For example:
RETURN VALUE
If a needed directory cannot be created, returns -1 and sets to one of the error numbers. If all the directories are created, or existed
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EXAMPLES
WARNINGS
uses to allocate temporary space for the string.
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of these two errors, returns
SEE ALSO
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mkdirp(3G)