Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,

Im trying to make a new directory based on a name given in a file called directory_file which contains the following content:

garbage gargbage
Directory: running
more garbage gargbage
more garbage gargbage
more garbage gargbage

So basically i have a shell script that makes a 1 level deeper directory called "running" than the shell script itself. If that directory already exists i need to delete that directory and wipe any files that it may contain and then make the same directory again.

my script so far is as follows:

cat directory_file while read LINE
do

if [ "`echo ${LINE} |grep 'Directory:'$`" != "" ] ; then
dir=`echo ${LINE} | cut -d ":"`
`mkdir $dir`
continue
fi

done



It dosent seem to make the directory and im not sure on how to check if a directory exists and if so delete it before making another. If someone knows whats wrong with my solution please let me know..im looking to fix my solution rather than designing a whole new one.

cheers

Try with this script as,

Code:

while read line; do
  echo $line | grep -q '^Directory'
  if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
  then
    mkdir $(echo $line | cut -d ':' -f2)
  fi
done < directory_file

It will work.

HTH.

thanks for ur help,

one question: will it check if the directory exists and if so delete it and all its content before making the same directory?

thanks

Try with this to delete the existing directory as,

Code:

while read line;do
echo $line | grep -q '^Directory'
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
then
   dir=$(echo $line | cut -d ':' -f2)
   [[ -d $dir ]] && rm -rf $dir
   mkdir $dir
fi
done < directory_file

HTH.