#!/bin/sh
<<COMMENT1
This script can run from its saved location as ./scriptname.sh foldername it will create a folder structure based off of foldername in the Users Home directory, adjust to suit your needs also remember to chmod u+x
COMMENT1
mkdir -p ~/$1/copy
mkdir -p ~/$1/layers
mkdir -p ~/$1/stock
Notes:
Make a Directory
To make a directory, use the mkdir (make directory) command. Enter:
mkdir directory
This will make a directory with the name you specify.
To make a directory for your chemistry papers and assignments, enter:
mkdir Chemistry
This makes the directory named Chemistry. If you begin
your directory names with a capital letter, they are easier to distinguish
from your file names.
Further notes:
Creating Directories
mkdir (make directory)
You can make a subdirectory of your home directory for your own data files. To make a subdirectory called unixtraining in your current working directory type:
% mkdir unixtraining
To see the directory you have just created, type:
% ls
You can also make a hidden directory if you want to. Use
a dot as the first character of the directory name for it to be hidden.
Creating down a path
Surprisingly often you want to create a directory but not directly at your current position in the directory tree. Suppose I am in my home directory and I want to create directories to hold some files for two courses but in
~/documents/2013/IT/training/Unix/
The first course is an introduction to Linux, second an introduction to Solaris. I can create these directories like this:
% mkdir ~/documents/2013/IT/training/Unix/Linux
and
% mkdir ~/documents/2013/IT/training/Unix/Solaris
Naturally, you don't have to specify the complete path
from ~, but I have done so here for clarity.
Creating a whole path:
mkdir -p
Perhaps less often you want to create not a single directory
but rather a directory subtree - that is a directory and directories beneath
it. Suppose I am in my home directory and I want to create directories
to hold some files for two courses: Redhat for Beginners and Advanced Redhat.
We can do this with the -p option on the mkdir command.
Here is the command to create the first directory:
% mkdir -p ~/documents/2013/IT/training/Unix/Linux/Redhat/beginners/
This creates the two directories we require in one go. We can then issue the command
% mkdir ~/documents/2013/IT/training/Unix/Linux/Redhat/advanced
Notice the difference between these two.
