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Old 10-11-2011
Network creating multiple sub-/directories using a shell script
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Hi,
I am looking for a way of creating multiple directories using the mkdir -p command in a shell script.
I'm working with an Ubuntu machine and try to do something like that:
#!/bin/sh

# Create required directories to support pipelines (BWAse, BWApe, and others to come...)

Code:
echo ***Creating  Directory Structure***
mkdir -p "temp/{temp1,temp2, temp3}"
mkdir -p temp/down/{struc1,struc2,struc3,struc4}

I would like to have each of the directories in the {} as sub-directories of the directory before.
The problem is that I get only one directory with the complete name inclusive the {}.
It looks like that:

Code:
ll -R temp
temp:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 31  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x  3  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 down/
drwxr-xr-x  2  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 {temp1,temp2, temp3}/

temp/down:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 {struc1,struc2,struc3,struc4}/

temp/down/{struc1,struc2,struc3,struc4}:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ../

temp/{temp1,temp2, temp3}:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2  USER 4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 USER  4096 2011-10-11 09:53 ../

What am doing wrong? Is there a way of automating this procedure?
Thanks
Assa
# 2  
Old 10-11-2011
What gives the following command :
Code:
echo $0

?

What OS are you running ?
# 3  
Old 10-11-2011
Code:
mkdir -p "temp/{temp1,temp2, temp3}"

why dou you use with double quotes and a space before temp3..
remove this and try again.
Code:
mkdir -p temp/{temp1,temp2,temp3}

# 4  
Old 10-11-2011
if ur OS, not supportable with flower brackets .. try in this way ..
Code:
$ for i in temp1 temp2 temp3; do mkdir -p temp/$i; done

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