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Commands tagged mkdir

Terminal - Commands tagged mkdir - 11 results

alias md='mkdir -p'; alias rd='rmdir'; mcd () { mkdir "$@" && cd "$_"; }

2012-08-12 12:54:51

User: expelledboy

Functions: alias cd mcd mkdir

Tags: cd directories mkdir

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Directory management

I realise that this is just a reiteration of another entry (regardless of whether I came up with all this all by myself), but I would like present my additional alias' in context as a method of managing your directories. Rather convenient.

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function mkdircd () { mkdir -p "$@" && eval cd "\"\$$#\""; }

2012-06-26 17:19:16

User: ankush108

Functions: cd eval mkdir

Tags: cd mkdir

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mkdir and cd

Creates a directory and then cds into it directly

for i in `seq 100`; do mkdir f${i}; touch ./f${i}/myfile$i ;done

2011-09-29 01:03:46

User: unixmonkey25928

Functions: mkdir touch

Tags: seq mkdir touch

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mkdir some file and mv some file

creates 100 directories f(1-100) with a file in each matched to the directory (/f1/myfile1, .. /f98/myfile98,/f99/myfile99/,/f100/myfile100,etc )

mkdir /home/foo/doc/bar && cd $_

2011-08-12 11:29:19

User: kzh

Functions: cd mkdir

Tags: bash cd mkdir bash tricks

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mkdir & cd into it as single command

The biggest advantage of this over the functions is that it is portable.

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take() { mkdir -p $1 && cd $1; }

2011-04-06 15:22:13

User: unixmonkey20182

Functions: cd mkdir

Tags: cd mkdir

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Create a directory and cd into it

This creates a bash function `take` that you can call with the name of the directory as the first parameter. Add the function to ~/.bashrc to have it available anytime.

mydir(){mkdir -p $1 && cd $1}

2011-04-06 15:03:33

User: m0jumb0

Functions: cd

Tags: cd mkdir

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Create a directory and cd into it

Make it a reusable function and add the -p flag to mkdir to create directories recursively

usage: mydir some/dir/to/create

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Dir=dirname; mkdir $Dir && cd $Dir

2011-04-06 14:53:57

User: saibbot

Functions: cd mkdir

Tags: cd mkdir

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Create a directory and cd into it

Create a directory called "dirname" and navigate into it.

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files -type f | xargs -n100 | while read l; do mkdir $((++f)); cp $l $f; done

2011-02-15 23:15:16

User: flatcap

Functions: cp mkdir read xargs

Tags: find xargs read mkdir cp

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Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory.

find creates the list of files

xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100

for each group, create a directory and copy in the files

Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)

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echo 'mkcd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; }' >> ~/.bashrc

2010-01-13 09:37:56

User: phaidros

Functions: cd echo mkdir

Tags: bash cd mkdir bash tricks

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mkdir & cd into it as single command

combines mkdir and cd

added quotes around $_, thanx to flatcap!

md () { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; }

2009-09-24 16:09:19

User: drewk

Functions: cd mkdir

Tags: bash cd function mkdir bash tricks

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Create a directory and change into it at the same time

How often do you make a directory (or series of directories) and then change into it to do whatever? 99% of the time that is what I do.

This BASH function 'md' will make the directory path then immediately change to the new directory. By using the 'mkdir -p' switch, the intermediate directories are created as well if they do not exist.

mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)

2009-04-25 14:16:45

User: thebodzio

Functions: date mkdir

Tags: alias date mkdir

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Create directory named after current date

Not a discovery but a useful one nontheless.

In the above example date format is 'yyyymmdd'. For other possible formats see 'man date'.

This command can be also very convenient when aliased to some meaningful name:

alias mkdd='mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)'

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