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Old 06-01-2006
folder creation
Hi,
help me to write a shell script to check the folder is exsting as with the current date in specified path,and if not exsting ,i need to create a folder with name as the current date

Thanks
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Old 06-01-2006
what have u tried so far ??? Smilie Smilie

Code:
dir=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
if [ ! -d $dir ]
then
echo "$dir not available. Making..."
mkdir $dir
else
echo "$dir existing..."
fi

append your required path to check where the directory should be checked and created !!!
 
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