I know there is the if your in your home directory, and there is also the But what if i want to make multiple directories in a directory?? using THIS tree for example, how would i make that?
The image you linked is a totally different type of directory tree... not the same type of directory at all. You're talking about directories as in filesystem directories, whereas this is a database style directory ala Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
no, i was using it as an example, as if it that tree were folders, how would the command look to make that tree.
I think that you need to browse to the directory where you want to create multiple folders. For example: Code: cd /folder1 And then create every folder seperately. Code: mkdir 01 mkdir 02 mkdir 03
Actually, Swansen actually had it better already: Code: mkdir -p work/homework/ch1/ch2 ...that would make 'work', and the sub-dir 'ch1', and the sub-sub-dir 'ch2', all in one command. To answer the question, the only thing I can think of would be a 'for' loop. In other words, simple scripting. But it'd be a pretty unusual situation when you'd need to do something like that, hence my relative ignorance... out of curiosity, what are you trying to do?
Just out of curiosity - do you issue the after you already created ? Or is the first command doing both actions in one go, i.e. creating the parent directory work/homwork and then two sub directories ch1 and 2? If so, how does it know which is the parent directory? work, homework, ch1 or ch2? Cheers!
you can build the whole tree in one command: I know you could do Code: mkdir -p parent/{child1,child2} but had a shot in the dark with the version below, which worked perfect Code: mkdir -p com/pisoftware/{people{/bmarshal,/jparker},group{/dev,/sysadmin}}
Specifically, i need to make the tree in the attachment. I did what donkey did only without the &&, so that was the missing link there. I found something similar to what Sniper is using there, but i was unsure of how to use the brackets. () I'm guessing they designate subfolders??
i havn't tested it but we were both thinking alike Code: cd ~/ mkdir -p /temp /professional/courses/major/cs381/labs /professional/courses/major/cs381/notes /professional/courses/major/cs381/programs /professional/courses/major/cs213 /professional/courses/major/cs475 /professional/courses/general /professional/societies/iee /professional/societies/acm /personal/funstuff /personal/taxes should in theory create your dir structure
the curly brackets allow you to create multiple sub-folders in the target directory say you wanted to create parent -> child 1 parent -> child 2 easier but longer way Code: mkdir -p parent/child1 && parent/child2 instead you would do Code: mkdir -p parent/{child1,child2} oh and your full tree, not as readable Code: mkdir -p YHD/{temp,personal{/funstuff,/taxes},professional{/courses{/general,/major{/cs213,/cs475,/cs381{/notes,/labs,/programs}}},/societies{/ieee,/acm}}}
