How to create folder name same as text file

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• fedev Posts: 9

  June 2010

  Let's see if I understand.
  
  You have a file, let's say test.txt which has many lines, each line is the name of a folder to be created. Then you would do something like:
  

  cat test.txt | xargs -I{} mkdir {}
  

  
  to create the folders? Is that what you want?

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• Linpuskelvin Posts: 3

  June 2010

  Thanks for reply, u are really helpful.
  
  1. For ur info, I only need to create one folder since I only gt one line there too.
  
  2. so is it, cat test.txt | mkdir {}

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• fedev Posts: 9

  June 2010

  what I wrote will work if you are running the command from the terminal and you are in the same folder as your test.txt file. Obviously the code could be used in a script and then you could pass some parameters to it (such as the location of the test.txt file). Also the command I wrote is to create a single level directory. So if you want to create two or more levels, it should be like this:
  

  cat test.txt | xargs -I {} mkdir -p {}
  

  
  And if you want to make it a script, then it should be as:
  

  #!/bin/bash
  if [[ $# -ne 1 [[
  then
          echo "This command requires one argument, the location of the test.txt file"
          exit 1
  fi
  
  cat "$1" | xargs -I {} mkdir -p {}
  
  

  
  It could still be improved a lot but at least will give you an idea of where to start.
  
  And, talking about where to start, it would be a good idea to check the following link out.
  
  Advance Bash Scripting Guide

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• Limpalot Posts: 2

  July 2010

  Or for a script that's easier to understand:
  

  #!/bin/bash
  dirname=`cat test.txt`
  mkdir $dirname
  

  This works if there is just one line to create one directory
  If you have multiple lines and want to create multiple directories:

  #!/bin/bash
  for i in `cat test.txt`; do
     mkdir $i
  done
  

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