recursive mkdir

Posted by Anurag in utilities
Tuesday, May 2. 2006

Did you encounter a situation wherein you had to create several directories recursively? just use mkdir/mkdirhier to do the trick

try this command:

mkdirhier

$ mkdirhier {A,B,C}/{P,Q,R}/{X,Y,Z}
OR
$ mkdir -p {A,B,C}/{P,Q,R}/{X,Y,Z}

Output directory structure should be something like this. each dir A,B,C contains directories named P,Q,R which in turn contain dirs X,Y,Z.

Originally i was looking somewhere in Exim4's documentation where in found out this info. normally this is used to create maildirs where they have several cur,new,tmp directories.

This is the actual structure of directory tree we will get. look at the screenshot also.



 |

[A]------[P]-------------[Q]-------------[R]

 |        |               |               |

 |    +---+---+       +---+---+       +---+---+ 

 |   [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]

 |                                    

[B]------[P]-------------[Q]-------------[R]

 |        |               |               |

 |    +---+---+       +---+---+       +---+---+ 

 |   [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]

 |                                    

[C]------[P]-------------[Q]-------------[R]

          |               |               |

      +---+---+       +---+---+       +---+---+ 

     [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]     [X] [Y] [Z]

ofcourse you need to install mkdirhier(1) first!

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Debarshi Ray - #1 - 2006-06-04 16:44 - (Reply)

Wow! This is really c00l.

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