UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi There,

I'm a competent computer user that is learning basic unix commands.

This is a slightly hypothetical question (for now at least!) but I can see a need for doing something like this in the near future.

So I recently learned this command mkdir foo{1..100} which of course create's 100 sequentially numbered directories quite remarkable considering how much time it would take to using the GUI (OSX in my case).

Lets assume I wanted to now create the same amount of directories but named from a list of names contained within a file. The actual file type is not relevant for now, because in the future I can make sure it is in the file type which is "easiest" to run this type of command, lets for arguments sake say it's a .txt file with a format like this

Jim Jones
Jayne Doe
John Smith
Jack Daniels

etc

Can anybody help with this type of command. I have searched the net and a few forums but have found nothing. I suppose this type of question might be easily answered by a unix / linux sys admin that might have to create directories like this for a school / university / organisation.

Thanks in advance

James

Code:

while read L; do mkdir "$L"; done < listfile

Home work?

Thanks I will give this a try.

"Home Work?" - I'm 26 my university days are long behind me in another field too. I like to write my questions with care!

Thanks I will post back with my findings.

James

Generally for future postings please use [code] and [/code] tags when posting code, data, lists or logs etc. to preserve formatting and enhance readability, thanks.