Originally Posted by gmark99

This sounds great! Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand the mkdir command, tho', since I'm talking about creating
a file, not a folder. I'll have to look into this and see how it pertains to files.

Originally Posted by gmark99

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As a matter of fact, let me ask another question. I've set this program up so that it creates files whose unique names specify the jobs their contents describe. In order to retrieve the information inside those files, I have to do a "grep" and awk or sed to extract it. I've just assumed that making a directory with that unique name that contains individual files for each type of information would be wasteful of storage and slower to retrieve. I realize now that I've only assumed this and was not sure.

How would the method of having a thousand or so directories with individual files inside each to contain several types of information compare to my current method of files with those same unique names containing fields to be extracted from those files?

Would getting the file inside a directory be less resource/time intensive than having to extract each piece of info from a single file with that unique name?

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