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Commands using mkdir

Terminal - Commands using mkdir - 71 results

mkdir 0{0..9}{0..9};mv 000 100

2009-08-14 16:33:20

User: sitaram

Functions: mkdir

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make 100 directories with leading zero, 001...100, using bash3.X

no external commands, but can only do 0-99, not 1-100, so we adjust it later

mkdir $(printf '%03d\n' {1..100})

2009-08-14 11:35:43

User: twfcc

Functions: mkdir printf

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make 100 directories with leading zero, 001...100, using bash3.X

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for file in *.mp3;do mkdir -p "$(mp3info -p "%a/%l" "$file")" && ln -s "$file" "$(mp3info -p "%a/%l/%t.mp3" "$file")";done

2009-08-05 17:04:34

User: matthewbauer

Functions: file ln mkdir

Tags: sort mp3 mp3info id3 tag

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Sort your music

This will mv all your mp3 files in the current directory to $ARTIST/$ALBUM/$NAME.mp3

Make sure not to use sudo - as some weird things can happen if the mp3 file doesn't have id3 tags.

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find . -type d -exec env d="$dest_root" sh -c ' exec mkdir -p -- "$d/$1"' '{}' '{}' \;

2009-08-03 12:21:37

User: hahnst

Functions: env exec find mkdir sh

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Copy a directory recursively without data/files

mkdir phrack66; (cd phrack66; for n in {1..17} ; do echo "http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=66&id=$n&mode=txt" ; done | xargs wget)

2009-06-11 21:42:42

User: masterofdisaster

Functions: cd echo mkdir xargs

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Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website

Nice reading in the morning on the way to work, but sadly the .tar.gz for the whole issue 66 is not on phrack's website yet. So use wget to download.

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mkdir -p /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom ; mount -F hsfs -o ro `ls -al /dev/sr* |awk '{print "/dev/" $11}'` /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom

2009-05-31 08:42:20

User: felix001

Functions: awk mkdir mount

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Mount a CD-ROM on Solaris (SPARC)

This will allow you to mount a CD-ROM on Solaris SPARC 9 or lower. This will not work on Solaris 10 due to void and the volume management daemons.

www.fir3net.com

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season=1; for file in $(ls) ; do dir=$(echo $file | sed 's/.*S0$season$E[0-9]\{2\}$.*/\1/'); mkdir $dir ; mv $file $dir; done

2009-05-27 03:30:58

User: lonecat

Functions: echo file mkdir mv sed

Tags: Videos organize

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Organize a TV-Series season

It happened to me that I got a season of a tv-show which had all files under the same folder like /home/blah/tv_show/season1/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

But I like to have them like this:

/home/blah/tv_show/season1/e{1,2,3,4,5,...}/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

So I can have both the srt and the avi on one folder without cluttering much. This command organizes everything assuming that the filename contains Exx where xx is the number of the episode.

You may need to set:

IFS=$'\n'

if your filenames have spaces.

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function mcd() { [ -n "$1" ] && mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$1"; }

2009-05-20 16:41:48

User: thebillywayne

Functions: cd mkdir

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combine `mkdir foo && cd foo` into a single function `mcd foo`

I find that I create a directory and then cd into that directory quite often. I found this little function on the internets somewhere and thought I'd share it. Just copy-paste it into you ~/.bash_profile and then `source ~/.bash_profile`.

mkdir `date --iso`

2009-05-15 12:30:10

User: hal

Functions: mkdir

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Make a directory named with the current date

Create a directory named with the current date in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd). Useful for storing backups by date. The --iso switch may only work with GNU date, can use format string argument for other date versions.

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mkdir `date | sed 's/[: ]/_/g'`

2009-04-29 21:28:45

User: copremesis

Functions: mkdir sed

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journaling directories

use today's time stamp to make a unique directory for today or an hour ago ...

find . -path ./mnt -prune -o -path ./lost+found -prune -o -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -print | cpio -pumd /destination && mkdir /destination/mnt/ && mkdir /destination/proc && mkdir /destination/sys

2009-04-28 22:14:45

User: nutria

Functions: cpio find mkdir

Tags: find cpio

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Clone /

Clone linux installation.

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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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mkdir() { /bin/mkdir $@ && eval cd "\$$#"; }

2009-03-30 17:24:21

User: fnando

Functions: cd eval mkdir

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Go to the created directory after using mkdir

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[[ -d dir ]] || mkdir dir ; cd dir

2009-03-12 17:19:13

User: voyeg3r

Functions: cd dir mkdir

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Go to directory or creat it and go to

For use in scripts this command is very usefull

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mkdir -p doc/{text/,img/{wallpaper/,photos/}}

2009-03-12 17:15:58

User: voyeg3r

Functions: mkdir

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create dir tree

create tree of dir's in one command

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for x in `find /path/ -type d | cut -b bytesoffoldername-`; do mkdir -p newpath/$x; done

2009-03-06 20:07:51

User: f4nt

Functions: cut mkdir

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Replicate a directory structure dropping the files

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function miso () { mkdir ~/ISO_CD && sudo mount -o loop "$@" ~/ISO_CD && cd ~/ISO_CD && ls; } function uiso () { cd ~ && sudo umount ~/ISO_CD && rm -r ~/ISO_CD; }

2009-02-25 03:41:35

User: vududevil

Functions: cd mkdir mount rm sudo umount

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Mount and umount iso files

Add the functions to the .bashrc to make it work

Example: First go to the iso file directory and type:

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user@box:~$ miso file.iso

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It will put you into a temporary mounting point directory (ISO_CD) and will show the files

You can umount the iso file whatever the directory you are

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user@box:~/ISO_CD$ uiso

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It wil umount the iso file and remove the temporary directory in your home

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mkdir -p work/{d1,d2}/{src,bin,bak}

2009-02-17 14:55:25

User: mikeda

Functions: mkdir

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make directory tree

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find * -type d -exec mkdir /where/you/wantem/\{\} \;

2009-02-12 14:42:55

User: afinzel

Functions: find mkdir

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Copy a file structure without files

Taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1310.htm

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mkdir -p a/long/directory/path

2009-02-07 15:26:27

User: tjweir

Functions: mkdir

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Make directory including intermediate directories

This will create the intermediate directories that do not exist.

I did not know about this for a long time.

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mkdir /Volumes/sshdisk 2> /dev/null; sshfs user@server:/ /Volumes/sshdisk -oreconnect,volname=SSHDisk

2009-02-05 13:31:15

User: fzero

Functions: mkdir

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Creates a SSHFS volume on MacOS X (better used as an alias). Needs FuseFS and SSHFS (obvioulsly).

To make it even more practical, make sure you can login to the ssh server using a keypair.

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