Create multiple folders and subfolders

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I need to create multiple directories and then subdirectories under each directories. I am able to write the script for creating directories but how do i achieve this for sub directories. Folder Structure:

-User1 -FolderA -FolderA1 -FolderB -FolderC -FolderC1 -FolderC2 -FolderD -User2 -FolderA -FolderA1 -FolderB -FolderC -FolderC1 -FolderC2 -FolderD -User3 -FolderA -FolderA1 -FolderB -FolderC -FolderC1 -FolderC2 -FolderD

I am able to achieve this in windows throug CSV file using powershell. Not sure how to get it in linux.

smaftoul · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-09 14:02:46Z

You can do it like this:

$ mkdir -p foo/{bar,baz} $ find foo/ foo/ foo/bar foo/baz

Or:

$ mkdir -p foo/bar foo/baz $ find foo/ foo/ foo/bar foo/baz

ceving · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-09 15:27:06Z

Bash is not very well suited to work with structured data. It is often better to use a different tool like Perl. The following code assumes that you indent the directories only by one space. This simplifies the calculation. If you want to pass your directories from stdin replace <DATA> with <>.

#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @p = (); while (<DATA>) { s/\n\r?//; if (/^(\s*)(.+)$/) { my $l = length $1; @p = (@p)[0 .. $l]; $p[$l] = $2; my $d = (join '/', @p); `mkdir $d`; } } __DATA__ User1 FolderA FolderA1 FolderB FolderC FolderC1 FolderC2 FolderD User2 FolderA FolderA1 FolderB FolderC FolderC1 FolderC2 FolderD User3 FolderA FolderA1 FolderB FolderC FolderC1 FolderC2 FolderD

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