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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looping inside directories based on a file which contains file directory list Post 302716453 by Piyush Jakra on Wednesday 17th of October 2012 04:05:28 AM
Old 10-17-2012
Thanks

Thank You RudiC for all your efforts.
Sorry I forgot to mention system and shell. Smilie
system is AIX 6.1 and shell is ksh
I will try your code.

in your code
Code:
 do if [ "${line:0:3}" != "dir" ]

i am not sure if this line of code will work in ksh.
i guess you are looking for 4 directories always. In my case it could be any number of directories and not 4 always ... You mentioned already " Always four dirs?" i missed it. very sorry for that Smilie

---------- Post updated 10-17-12 at 01:35 PM ---------- Previous update was 10-16-12 at 09:26 PM ----------

I tried to run your script by changing the code from
Code:
#!/bin/bash

to
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

and removing that "function" keyword, but it failed in this line
Code:
"${line:0:3}": bad substitution

I guess this doesn't work in ksh.

Last edited by Piyush Jakra; 10-17-2012 at 04:14 AM..
 

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MKDIR(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  MKDIR(1)

NAME
mkdir -- make directories SYNOPSIS
mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory_name ... DESCRIPTION
The mkdir utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, using mode rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask(2). The options are as follows: -m mode Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to the specified mode. The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the chmod(1) command. If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters ``+'' and ``-'' are interpreted rela- tive to an initial mode of ``a=rwx''. -p Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask, plus write and search permission for the owner. -v Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. The user must have write permission in the parent directory. DIAGNOSTICS
The mkdir utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
rmdir(1) COMPATIBILITY
The -v option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. STANDARDS
The mkdir utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. HISTORY
A mkdir command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. BSD
January 25, 1994 BSD
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