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I want to make multiple directories in one go. The problem is that one of the sub directories have a name with a space in it. The directory structure i want to make is as follows.

project
    /level 1
    /level2

I tried escaping the space but it does not seem to work. Here is my command.

mkdir -p project/{level\ 1,level2}

But this does not seem to work. and results in directory structure like.

project
    /level

1,level2

What am I doing wrong?

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    Can you post your .bashrc, because nothing wrongs with your command.
    – favadi
    Dec 24, 2012 at 5:32
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    Those cmds works for me
    – daisy
    Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48

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You could trymkdir -p project/{'level 1','level 2'}

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    This would also work: mkdir -p project/level{' 1', 2}
    – laebshade
    Dec 24, 2012 at 18:16

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