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Old 12-23-2010
looping some statements
Hi,
assume there are some dir structure like -

Quote:
/xyz/abc/123/qwe
/xyz/dfe/123/qwe
/xyz/ghi/123/qwe
I need to write a script to create 5 new directories under 'qwe' dir of all the above 3 dir structures. these 5 dir will have same name.
I don't want to use 15 mkdir statements. i just want to write 5 mkdir statemets and use them 3 times. I appreciate any help.

I am on UX-HP machine.
Last edited by Sriranga; 12-23-2010 at 05:26 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-23-2010
use -p option of mkdir.

Code:
mkdir -p /xyz/abc/123/qwe/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5
mkdir -p /xyz/def/123/qwe/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5
mkdir -p /xyz/ghi/123/qwe/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5

R0H0N
# 3  
Old 12-23-2010
Thanks Rohan. I am using mkdir -p option. my req is not to create dir1 to dir5 one below the other but to create all 5 under 'qwe'
/xyz/abc/123/qwe/dir1
/xyz/abc/123/qwe/dir2
.
.
/xyz/def/123/qwe/dir4
.
.
.
./xyz/ghi/123/qwe/dir5
# 4  
Old 12-23-2010
Try:

Code:
for dir in /xyz/abc/123/qwe /xyz/dfe/123/qwe /xyz/ghi/123/qwe
do
 mkdir -p $dir/dirA $dir/dirB $dir/dirC $dir/dirD $dir/dirE
done

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# 5  
Old 12-23-2010
try this
Code:
 
mkdir -pv /xyz/{ghi,dfe,abc}/qwe/dir{1,2,3,4,5}

# 6  
Old 12-23-2010
thanks Anchal...it works !
Still 1 more doubt Smilie is there any way we can assign the path
'/xyz/abc/123/qwe' to a variable and then use it in for loop's condition? like

Code:
path1 = /xyz/abc/123/qwe
path2 = /xyz/dfe/123/qwe
path3 = /xyz/ghi/123/qwe

for dir in path1 path2 path3
do
 mkdir -p $dir/dirA $dir/dirB $dir/dirC $dir/dirD $dir/dirE
done

Last edited by Scott; 12-23-2010 at 07:26 AM.. Reason: Quote tags to Code tags
# 7  
Old 12-23-2010
Code:
path1="/xyz/abc/123/qwe"
path2="/xyz/dfe/123/qwe"
path3="/xyz/ghi/123/qwe"

for dir in $path1 $path2 $path3
do
mkdir -p $dir/dirA $dir/dirB $dir/dirC $dir/dirD $dir/dirE
done
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