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Hello again unix.com.

How can I split a directory in 100 other ones. I have the directory "example.com" and I want to make 100 like it with names 1.example.com, 2.example.com, 3.example.com ... to 100.example.com.

Thanks.

i=1
while [ $i -le 100 ]
do
mkdir $i.example.com
i=`expr $i + 1`
echo " created $i.example.com directory"
done

Use the above script which creates you 100 directories. Run the script, where you want to make these directories.

Yes it creates the directories but the files in the example.com arent copied. I want the files to copy in those created directories also. Thanks.

In that case,

i=1
while [ $i -le 100 ]
do
mkdir $i.example.com
cp -pr example $i.example.com # recursively copies all the files and contents
i=`expr $i + 1`
echo " created $i.example.com directory"
done

Hope this helps

---------- Post updated at 09:54 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:52 PM ----------

typo..

try this..

i=1
while [ $i -le 100 ]
do
mkdir $i.example.com
cp -pr example.com $i.example.com # recursively copies all the files and contents
i=`expr $i + 1`
echo " created $i.example.com directory"
done

Working but seems to make a additional directory example.com in the new created folders.

[root@mail www]# ls 57.example.com
example.com

LE: Nevermind, added /* and works fine. Thanks a million.

ksh93/zsh/bash:

Code:

mkdir {1..100}.example.com

sh:

Code:

seq 1 100 | xargs -I{} mkdir {}.example.com

For copy:

Code:

cp -r example.com {1..100}.example.com

The same with xargs.

no need for mkdir command

Code:

$ i=1;while [ $i -le 100 ]; do cp -prf example.com $i.example.com; i=$((i+1));done