Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:22:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Nuno Marques <nmarques@di.fc.ul.pt> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously Message-ID: <hoi5cu$9og$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20100326071248.4ec4ea5e@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:12:48 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several directories,
> actually a parent direct and several sub-directories simultaneously;
> however, I cannot fine the documentation any longer.
>
> Assume I want to create a directory: FOO with three directories under
> it, foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3. I tried: mkdir -p foo {foo-1, foo-2, foo-3}
> and several other variants and they all failed. I could easily write a
> simple script to accomplish it; however, I thought I could do it
> directly from the command line.
try mkdir -p foo{,-1,-2,-3}
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