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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting creating files and getting input from another file Post 302232494 by era on Thursday 4th of September 2008 03:04:45 PM
Old 09-04-2008
Actually you can avoid the ugly use of echo | sed by using the shell's built-in variable substitution facility.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
while read pathname; do
  dirname=${pathname%/*}
  basename=${pathname#$dirname/}
  mkdir -p ./"$dirname"
  touch ./"$dirname"/"$basename"
done <Files.txt

Also the cd back and forth is superfluous; touch (just like any other Unix file-manipulation command) can cope with a directory path for the file name.
 

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dirname

BASENAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       BASENAME(1)

NAME

     basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname

SYNOPSIS

     basename string [suffix]
     basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
     dirname string

DESCRIPTION

     The basename utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' character present in string (after first stripping trailing slashes),
     and a suffix, if given.  The suffix is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in string.  The resulting filename is
     written to the standard output.  A non-existent suffix is ignored.  If -a is specified, then every argument is treated as a string as if
     basename were invoked with just one argument.  If -s is specified, then the suffix is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are
     treated as a string.

     The dirname utility deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash '/' character to the end of string (after first stripping
     trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output.

EXAMPLES

     The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin.

	   FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/trail`

DIAGNOSTICS

     The basename and dirname utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     csh(1), sh(1)

STANDARDS

     The basename and dirname utilities are expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.

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