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Old 10-12-2010
Creating directories within a directory?
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Ok i need to create a directory within another directory in one command. I'm already in a directory to. I need to create "Test" then create another two directories(test1 & test2) within "Test",
School (Presentworkingdirectory)
Test (1st directory)
-test 1(2nd directory)
-test 2(3rd directory)

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
mkdir, mkdir-p and much more


3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
I can only get it to make the directories in the same level.


4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
York University, Toronto, Canada, Mr. Grant, UNIX502

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# 2  
Old 10-12-2010
mkdir -p test/test1/test2
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# 3  
Old 10-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
mkdir -p test/test1/test2
also another question bro

are these relative pathnames right? or can they be made into them?


mkdir -p test1/test2/test3 (creating 3 consecutive directories)
mkdir -p ../back1 ../back2 (creating two seperate directories)
mkdir -p /test1/test2 test3 (working from the school directory)
^ the one i got help with from above
# 4  
Old 10-12-2010
A relative path is one that is "rooted" in the current directory (no leading slant). A path name with a leading slash is an absolute path.

That should be enough information for you to answer your question.
# 5  
Old 10-12-2010
oh yea i fixed my problems, but now im having trouble creating two directories in the same

test (directory1)
test1 (directory2)
test2 (directory3)

directory 2 and 3 are in directory 1

i tried mkdir -p test/test1/test2, but test3 is not going into directory 1 with directory 2
# 6  
Old 10-13-2010
From man pages:
Quote:
mkdir(1) mkdir(1)

NAME
mkdir - make a directory

SYNOPSIS
mkdir [-p] [-m mode] dirname ...

DESCRIPTION
mkdir creates specified directories in mode 0777 (possibly altered by
umask unless specified otherwise by a -m mode option (see umask(1)).
Standard entries, . (for the directory itself) and .. (for its parent)
are created automatically. If dirname already exists, mkdir exits
with a diagnostic message, and the directory is not changed.

Options
mkdir recognizes the following command-line options:

-m mode After creating the directory as specified, the file
permissions are set to mode, which is a symbolic mode
string as defined for chmod (see chmod(1)). The
umask(1) has precedence over -m.

-p Intermediate directories are created as necessary.
Otherwise, the full path prefix of dirname must
already exist. mkdir requires write permission in
the parent directory.

For each directory name in the pathname prefix of the
dirname argument that is not the name of an existing
directory, the specified directory is created using
the current umask setting, except that the equivalent
of chmod u+wx is done on each component to ensure
that mkdir can create lower directories regardless of
the setting of umask. Each directory name in the
pathname prefix of the dirname argument that matches
an existing directory is ignored without error. If
an intermediate path component exists, but has
permissions set to prevent writing or searching,
mkdir fails with an error message.

If the -m option is used, the directory specified by
dirname (excluding directories in the pathname
prefix) is created with the permissions specified by
mode.
etc...
To be able in ONE command, mkdir that is you will have no other choice but to give the 2 directories in argument and using -p option:
Code:
mkdir -p test/test1 test/test2

which will create you:
/test # the directory
/test/test1 # the 2 subdirectories...
/test/test2
demo:
Code:
ezra:/tmp/vbe $ mkdir -p test/test1 test/test2; ll -ld test/*
drwxrwxr-x   2 vbe        bin             96 Oct 13 17:05 test/test1
drwxrwxr-x   2 vbe        bin             96 Oct 13 17:05 test/test2
ezra:/tmp/vbe $ ll
total 0
drwxrwxr-x   4 vbe        bin             96 Oct 13 17:05 test

Good exercice: Read the man pages...
start by typing man man
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Old 10-13-2010
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