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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to create folders/subfolders using shellscript Post 302070461 by shriashishpatil on Wednesday 5th of April 2006 05:20:14 AM
Old 04-05-2006
use mkdir -p
 

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MKDIR(1)							   User Commands							  MKDIR(1)

NAME
mkdir - make directories SYNOPSIS
mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... DESCRIPTION
Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, --mode=MODE set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask -p, --parents no error if existing, make parent directories as needed -v, --verbose print a message for each created directory -Z, --context[=CTX] set the SELinux security context of each created directory to default type or to CTX if specified --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report mkdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
mkdir(2) The full documentation for mkdir is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mkdir programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'mkdir invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 MKDIR(1)
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