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Old 05-11-2010
Creation of multiple directories
I have a folder structure like the below

/test/test1/test2/app
/test/test3/app
/test/test4/test5/app
..


I need to create a new folder under "app" in all the above listed directory structure at one shot by the name "subapp" .

How can we acheive this using a script .

New to unix scripting hence request the direction .

Thanks all .
# 2  
Old 05-11-2010
Code:
 find /test -type d -name "app" -exec mkdir {}/subapp \;

# 3  
Old 05-11-2010
Hi , Thanks for the quick reply .

But getting a error when i try to test it out ..

Code:
$ pwd
/tmp/rajesh
$ cd fol1
$ ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 wmuser   wmftp           256 May 11 17:28 sub
$ cd ../fol2
$ ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 wmuser   wmftp           256 May 11 17:28 sub
$ cd ../fol3
$ ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 wmuser   wmftp           256 May 11 17:29 sub
$ find /tmp/rajesh -type d -name "sub" -exec mkdir {}/subapp \;
mkdir: 0653-357 Cannot access directory {}.
{}: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
mkdir: 0653-357 Cannot access directory {}.
{}: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
mkdir: 0653-357 Cannot access directory {}.
{}: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
$

Last edited by pludi; 05-11-2010 at 06:43 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 4  
Old 05-11-2010
Hi.

Try with xargs:

Code:
find . -type d -name sub | xargs -I{} mkdir {}/subapp

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# 5  
Old 05-11-2010
THANKS scottn , It works .

Thanks all the quick replies .
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