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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to check directory and create missing folder from file Post 303039515 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 8th of October 2019 04:07:26 PM
Old 10-08-2019
This intent was to replace the original for loop like this:

Code:
DIR=/home/cmccabe/Desktop/new
for RDIR in "$DIR"/R_2019* ; do  ## # matching "R_2019*" to operate on desired directory and expand
  S5=${RDIR##*/}  ## store run with no path as S5
  TRIMSTR=${RDIR%%-v5.6*}  ## trim folder match in RDIR from -v5.6 and store in TRIMSTR
  mv "$RDIR" "$TRIMSTR"  ## move trimmed folder to directory
  cd "$TRIMSTR"
  STRING=$(
      awk -F '\n' -v RS="" -v ref="$S5" '$0 ~ ref {d=split($0, val, " "); for(i=2;i<d;i+=2) 
          printf "%s ",val[i]; printf "\n"}' "$DIR"/f1 )
  for folder in $STRING
  do
      ## if $folder does not exist then make $folder/variants
      [ -d "$folder" ] || mkdir -p "$folder"/variants
  done
done

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