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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help needed with creating challenging bash script with creating directories Post 302311254 by durden_tyler on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 09:42:25 AM
Old 04-28-2009
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Originally Posted by I-1
Hi,

Can someone help me with creating a bash shell script.
I need to create a script that gets a positive number n as an argument.
The script must create n directories in the current directory with names like map_1, map_2 etcetera. Each directory must be contained within its predecessor. So map_1 contains map_2, map_2 contains map_3 and so forth.

Thanks for the help!
Looks like a homework question, so here's a hint: given the number "n", loop from 1 through n and create a string that represents the directory tree you want. Then use the "-p" option of "mkdir" command to create the directory tree.

Hope that helps,
tyler_durden

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