Questions tagged [mkdir]
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Is mkdir -p safe to parallelize?
I'm writing Makefile rules like this:
out/%.x: ...
mkdir -p $(@D)/
...
I intend to parallelize this Makefile (-j), which will trigger many mkdir -p's to simultaneously.
Is this safe? Or do ...
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Why mkdir with ssh doesn't want create longname dir? [duplicate]
Two slackware 14.2 systems,ssh is 7.9p1.
On local system
mkdir -p -v "I want to create long dir name with spaces"
mkdir: directory 'I want to create long dir name with spaces' created
And is OK
On ...
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Is it possible to detect file or folder creation/deletion in real time?
I want to monitor file or folder creation/deletion instantaneously, is it possible?
EDIT:I am using Ubuntu 16.04
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Mkdir and Insmod - File Exists error
Any ideas what im doing wrong?
mkdir /mnt/zmg
mount -t cifs -o username=Administrator,password=*****,domain=Provisorio,noserverino //10.20.30.1/zmg /mnt/zmg
insmod /mnt/zmg/tntfs.ko
Heres a print of ...
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How do I specify a path to an executable for a systemd unit file on nix?
I'm trying to write a systemd unit file.
How do I specify the path to an executable? How can I determine what to use?
In this specific case I'm trying to use mkdir.
ExecStartPre = "/bin/mkdir -p %h/...
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mkdir -p returns error if exists
Raspbian Stretch Lite:
$ mkdir --help
Usage: mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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Trying to remove current directory using rmdir
I created a directory dir at Desktop and then i keyed in cd dir so as to make dir as my current directory and then i typed in the terminal rmdir /home/user_name/Desktop/dir from the dir directory ...
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Create file in subdirectories that doesn't exist (../new_folder/new_folder/new_file.ext)
For now i use this:
mkdir -p a/b/c/d/e;
touch a/b/c/d/e/file.abc;
Is there more efficient ways?
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Single “mkdir” command to make a new directory and change to that directory at the same time? [duplicate]
Quick question:
Is it possible to use "mkdir" to make a new directory AND change to that directory at the same time using a single 'mkdir' command?
Whole question:
I have this question:
What ...
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Can't remove space from beginning of variable
I am trying to crate a folder with the label and uuid of a media device plugged in as its name, on another flash drive which I am using to log.
I have the following code:
LOGDEVICELABEL=...
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Is there a programmatical difference between directories created with mktemp -d or mkdir?
I try to understand Stephen Kitt's answer to this question where he created a temporary directory with the following code:
#!/bin/bash
scripttmp=$(mktemp -d) # Create a temporary directory (these ...
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Loop to create subdirectories in multiple directories
I want to create subdirectories into each of directories below. I used the following loop:
#! bash
/# dir m3z m3t m3t2 m3g m3g2 m3g3 ... n dir
for d in m3z m3t m3t2 m3g m3g2 m3g3 ... n ...
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mkdir -p if final target is symlink
Say we have:
node_modules/
suman/
and node_modules/suman is a symlink
if we do:
mkdir -p "$PWD/node_modules/suman"
I assume mkdir -p will not overrwrite the symlink?
what about if $PWD/...
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Bash wildcard not expanding
I'm trying to make a directory for each file in a directory.
mkdir *
returns File exists. So I try
mkdir *.d
and it makes a directory called "*.d". How do I force the wildcard to expand?
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How to create a script to make a structure and sort files by moving them into directories?
I have a bunch of files which all have a first line being a date. All of them start with the same first 2 letters being "ff". I need to create a script which would use that first line in all files and ...
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How to move a folder into itself?
I have a directory
foo/
bar.txt
baz.yzw
wun/
a.out
Now, I would like to basically add a directory in between, i.e. I would like to make it
foo/
var1/
bar.txt
baz.yzw
...
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When does `mkdir -p /path/to/dir` exist with nonzero status?
mkdir -p /path/to/something
when does the above command exit with nonzero exit status?
Does it happen, if and only if /path/to/something doesn't exist as any file (or as a directory?) before ...
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Solaris 9 Fail to mkdir - no permission
In solaris 9 (5.9) I fail to mkdir with user builder, the user exist in the group defined as owner for that path.
bash-2.05$ groups builder
other root sys
bash-2.05$
and this is the file ...
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How to make autoconf use “install” instead of “mkdir -p”?
When I run sudo make install on a compiled package from the GNU archive, it uses mkdir -p to create the destination directories.
I'd prefer it to use mkdir -p -m 0755 or install -d -m 0755 instead in ...
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Moving files to directories named after the first 6 digits in the file name
I've got thousands of raw photos (.nef) and relative settings (same filename but .xmp extension) in a single directory on a QNAP nas. My goal is to automate the creation of subdirs named like yyyy-mm ...
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Create folders and subfolders from csv/txt file
I have a excel file which i will convert to csv or txt file with following data:
ALFA ROMEO > 147 > Scheinwerferblenden
ALFA ROMEO > 156 > Scheinwerferblenden
ALFA ROMEO > 156 > ...
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How to make multiple directories and move multiple files
As an example, I have a directory with multiple files in this general format:
dir1/identifier1_desiredName1.m
dir1/identifier1_desiredName2
dir1/identifier1_desiredName3.m
dir1/...
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Bash command to create a folder and move specific files into it
I am trying to achieve this using bash
I have a directory of files, a sample to get the picture is below:
January 2010 MA - C3 Edexcel.pdf
January 2010 MS - C3 Edexcel.pdf
January 2010 QP - C3 ...
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mkdir -p dir with braces created wrongly
I executed the following code in Ubuntu server 16.04 xenial:
mkdir -p /root/backups/{db, dirs}
I recall that in another system, it worked like charm creating all 3 dirs:
/root/backups/
/root/...
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IBM AIX find src_dir -type d -exec mkdir -p “dst_dir/{}” \; doesn't work
I'm trying to copy directory structure from src_dir to dst_dir.
On my CentOS 6.4 Linux Bash this command works fine.
[localhost]$ find src_dir
src_dir
src_dir/dir2
src_dir/dir2/dir4
...
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loop over file and make dir with 1st columns and and wget using the other columns
I have a file like this with multiple rows-
GSE55555 ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE55nnn/GSE55555/suppl/* ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE55nnn/GSE55555/matrix/*
GSE11111 ftp://...
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Create multiple directories with -p option
Why does this command
sudo mkdir -p \
/opt/nginx/conf.d \
/opt/gitlab/config
throw the error /opt/gitlab/config: File or directory not found. I'm expecting to create it. Also I used the -p flag.
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mkdir with seq command problem
I need to make 5 directories (name1, name2, name3, name4, name5) by command line using mkdir and seq.
If I use:
mkdir name{`seq -s , 1 5`}
It results in one directory: name{1,2,3,4,5}
What ...
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mkdir based on arguments then copy files to that directory
I'm trying to create a simple script that I can run through the Android adb shell to move two specific files to a directory that is named based on the argument provided but haven't been having any ...
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Add a folder in a sequence of folders and rename the other folders
I have x number of folders
folder1
folder2
folder3
......
folder100
What I want to do is;
add folder2
reorder
So now:
folder1
folder2
folder3
......
folder101
So now, the folder that was folder2 ...
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Sort files in a folder into dated folders
I am trying to organize my webcam picture files into folders otherwise I get thousands of pictures in one folder.
I have a script foscam-move.sh (from Create sub-directories and organize files by ...
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Permission denied when I tried to create a folder in root [closed]
Hi I tried to create a folder for ssh key in root with this command:
mkdir /root/.ssh && chown -R root:root /root && chmod -R 770 /root
and I have permission denied:
mkdir: cannot ...
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One liner mkdir with directory naming as days?
How can I create directories named as days of the week (i.e Monday, Tuesday, .... Saturday) inside a directory like /tmp/ in one command only?
Like combination of mkdir with date +%A or any other.
...
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how to add a custom option to the mkdir command
I have created lots of directories and I would to make my life lazy and to auto cd into the directory that I made with the option of -g with the result of mkdir -g foo
The terminal would be like this:...
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Creating multiple nested directories with one command
How can I create multiple nested directories in one command?
mkdir -p /just/one/dir
But I need to create multiple different nested directories...
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How many directories can be nested?
I'm curious, how many folders can be nested, and why? Is there a limit?
What I mean by nested is when folders are in this structure:
folder
|_ folder
|_ folder
|_ folder
|...
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Create directory name based on other other directories
I have directories:
Foo
Fee
but I also have some directories with names like:
Ipsum - Lorem
Dolor - Sit
If the directory does not contain a hyphen is should be ignored
If the directory does ...
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a script to replace mkdir -p command
I'm writing a script that replaces the mkdir -p command. Here is what I have so far:
#!/bin/sh
n=1;
max=50;
while [ "$n" -le "$max" ]; do
mkdir "s$n"
n='expr "$n" + 1';
done
I should be able to ...
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How to create a directory with '/' in unix?
I want to create a directory with name as below
A3456/90876/IN AS%90876 JI KOL
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Bash can't run command from script: mkdir command not found [closed]
I have separate scripts for tasks in bash. Here is the broken one:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/home/name/
mkdir $PATH
cd $PATH && echo "done."
exit 0
Today it broke and first time it simply didn't ...
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Sudo mkdir fails due to permission denied error
I've written a script that copies some files from one place to another and since I don't have permissions to the source folder, I tried running it with sudo.
The problem is that now the creation of ...
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Creating 2 directories in a different location
sample_dir2
-- sample_dir
|-- admin
|-- cambridge
| `-- security
| |-- annex
| `-- parking
|-- history.exe
|-- markham
| |-- annex
| |-- building1
| `-- parking
`-- stenton
|...
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$_ not working with copy and move commands
I face the problem with
$_ usage,
which $_ special parameter in terminal, And its call the last argument of the previous command.
It was not work with cp and mv command in gnome-terminal.It happen ...
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mkdir with brace expansion seems to fail when variables are used [duplicate]
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
GNU bash, Version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
mkdir -vp test{1..3}/{a,b,c}
works fine
mkdir: created directory 'test1'
mkdir: created directory 'test1/a'
mkdir: ...
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Creating multiple directories using a parameter in a shell script [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a bash script that would make a series of directories
and requesting a parameter of how many directories should be created.
$> ./createDir.sh 5
$> ls
ex_01
ex_02
ex_03
...
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mkdir: cannot create directory under /root : Permission denied
And here it is, another permission denied, sorry for that, but I cannot get it running.
Let me be a stack user with sudo permissions, so that I can create a folder x by sudo mkdir /root/x.
That's ...
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alias to make a new directory and go to it [duplicate]
So here I've created, or at least tried to create an alias for a command that accepts a command-line argument, makes a new directory with that name, and goes to it.
alias newfolder='mkdir $2 ; cd "$(...
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Create a subirectory within multiple directories
I have a directory containing several folders with different names, and I need to create a subdirectory in each individual folder.
The path for one of the folders looks like this:
/Volumes/Server1/...
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How to create a new file which provides filename and its source directory information
I have a directory that contains so many sub directories and files in them. I would like to create a file which provides each file name and it's source directory path information
For example:
I have ...
