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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating new directories Post 303013210 by kristinu on Saturday 17th of February 2018 02:23:52 PM
Old 02-17-2018
Creating new directories
I want to create a new system of directory structure for example

Code:
mkdir -p ./iv.sac/resu/hhz.d

However, I think that `mkdir -p` overwrites the directories. I want to avoid that
and am doing something as follows in my bash script

Code:
echo -e "\nCreating directories:" 
odir_nwk="./iv.sac/resu/hhz.d"
if [ -d "$odir_nwk" ]; then
  echo "Directory already exists: $odir_nwk"
else
  echo "mkdir -p $odir_nwk"
fi

I suppose this will only check if the directory `./iv.sac/resu/hhz.d`
exists but might overwrite `./iv.sac/resu` for example.

Would like to make this foolproof. What can I do?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

syrthes2ensight

SYRTHES2ENSIGHT(1)					      General Commands Manual						SYRTHES2ENSIGHT(1)

NAME

       syrthes2ensight - Convert Syrthes geometry and result files to Ensight format

SYNOPSIS

       syrthes2ensight [-d] [-q] syr.geom syr.res ensight_file
       syrthes2ensight -g [-d] [-q] syr.geom ensight_file
       syrthes2ensight -r [-d] [-q] syr.res ensight_file
       syrthes2ensight -h

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the syrthes2ensight command.

       syrthes2ensight can convert both Syrthes .geom and .res files. Input parameters depend on the way syrthes2ensight is invoked.

       Most of the time syrthes2ensight is invoked with three parameters:

	    syrthes2ensight [options] syr.geom syr.res ensight_file with

       syr.geom    Geometrical file generated by syrthes.

       syr.resu    Result  file  generated  by	syrthes.  It can be either a single time step result file or a chrono file containing several time
		   steps. In the latter all time steps will be handled.

       ensight_file
		   Output Ensight file generated by syrthes2ensight.

       To process a geometrical file only:

	    syrthes2ensight -g [options] syr.geom ensight_file

       To process a result file only:

	    syrthes2ensight -r [options] syr.resu ensight_file

       A detailed documentation is available at <http://rd.edf.com/syrthes>

OPTIONS

       -d	   Split P2 elements into P1 elements.

       -g	   Use only a geometry file as input. No result file should be provided.

       -h	   Display a short syrthes2ensight usage message

       -q	   Keep quadratic elements (default: convert into P1 elements).

       -r	   Use only a result file as input. No geometry file should be provided.

AUTHOR

       Syrthes was written by EDF S.A. <syrthes-support@edf.fr>

       This manual page was written by Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini@free.fr> for Debian.

								   July 9, 2009 						SYRTHES2ENSIGHT(1)
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