Re: [edlug] bash script help needed

[Faye Gibbins <wibble@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

if your mkdir is a recent GNU version you can do this:

---
MYDIR = ~user/dir
mkdir -p $MYDIR/some/other/dir
---

but don't foget to check all your exit values. :-)

> if !exists some/dir
>    mkdir some/dir
> endif (if needed)

[ ! -d some/dir ] && mkdir -p some/dir

	

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Faye

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David Marsh's listreading hat wrote:
> I'm not much of a scripting expert and was wondering if somebody could
> tell me how to do the following in bash?
>
>
> (good old pseudocode)
>
>
> MYDIR = ~user/dir
> mkdir $MYDIR/some/other/dir
>
>
> (I'm not sure what the right syntax for this is, and I don't seem to
> have it right)
>
>
> (and also)
>
> if !exists some/dir
>    mkdir some/dir
> endif (if needed)
>
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
>
> David.
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