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# 8  
Old 12-23-2010
thanx Anurag... 1 more quick doubt/ req Smilie
what if the name of the dir 'qwe' is read a command line argument. that is $1 contains the name of the dir. and I need to assign the path1 = "/xyz/abc/123/$1"

The above assignment doesn't seems to be working.
# 9  
Old 12-23-2010
Code:
path1="/xyz/abc/123/$1"

No space on either side of equal sign.
If still doesn't work, Pls post the code and the error you get.
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# 10  
Old 12-23-2010
"NO space" is the key to the success. Smilie thanx Anurag and all for the help. i got my script working perfectly now.
# 11  
Old 12-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by anchal_khare
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

Code:
set -- /xyz/abc/123/qwe /xyz/dfe/123/qwe /xyz/ghi/123/qwe
for i in $*
do
    mkdir -p $i
done
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