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Do something only that last iteration of loop

I have a script with logic like:

Code:

my_function()
{
if [ $2 ]
mkdir $1
mkdir mydir_${2}
else
do something else
fi
}

read in list of items
while read list 
do
my_function $list `date`
done

so basically it will make a directory for every name in the list and create a directory with the date appended (which I only want to do once). What I want to know is how do I perform the line "mkdir mydir_${2}" only once? This is not the script itself, so this example it a bit silly, but the logic is there, I want to iterate through a list and call a function with each item in the list, but there is one element in the function that should only happen once.. Assume that the argument $2 is something that will not change through each iteration, so I do not want to repeat the process doing the same thing over and over. Is there a better solution than to create another function and call it? There is a reason that I dont move this line out of the function, but it's difficult to explain without posting my company's intellectual property.

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