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Hi I've been trying to find an answer to this question and was hoping someone would be able to help me.

I want to add a sub-folder to to an existing structure: for example

Code:

/toys/toy_1/new
/toys/toy_2/new
/toys/toy_3/new

There are humdreds of theses folders - what i want to do is add a sub-folder to all the "new" folders called type.

so it would like like this

Code:

/toys/toy_1/new/type
/toys/toy_2/new/type
/toys/toy_3/new/type

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Use code tags for code and data, please. [code]stuff[/code] or select the relevant text and click the button.

Code:

find /toys -type d -path '*/new' -exec mkdir -p '{}/type' '+'

If your find doesn't support '+', use ';'.

If you want to create the file only in empty directories:

Code:

 find toys -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 mkdir

or

Code:

 find toys -type d -links 2 -print0 | xargs -0 mkdir