用于创建目录结构的Bash脚本

Question

I've been googling all night trying to find a way to create a script that creates a directory structure. That looks something like this:

/
shared
shared/projects
shared/series
shared/movies
shared/movies/action

You get the point.

The file that the script reads from look like this:

shared backup
shared data
shared projects 
shared projcets series
shared projects movies
shared projects movies action

I want to create a script that reads each line in the file and run the following for each line: If the directory exist, it places itself in the directory and create the structure from there, if The directory doesn't exist, create it.
When all entries in the row have been preceded by, go back to original directory and read the next line.

My system is Ubuntu 10.10.

So far I've done this, but it doesn't work.

#!/bin/bash

pwd=$(pwd)

for structure in ${column[*]}
do
  if [ $structure ]
  then
    cd $structure
  else
    mkdir $structure
  fi
done

cd $pwd

Answer 1

You can use mkdir -p shared/projects/movies/action to create the whole tree: it will create shared , then shared/projects , then shared/projects/movies , and shared/projects/movies/action .

So basically you need script that runs mkdir -p $dir where $dir is the leaf directory of your directory tree.

Answer 2

If struct.txt contains the directory structure that you mention, then just run:

sed '/^$/d;s/ /\//g' struct.txt | xargs mkdir -p

sed will remove blank lines and make the remaining lines look like directory paths.
xargs will take each line and pass it as a parameter to mkdir .
mkdir will make the directory and the -p flag will create any parent directories if needed.

Answer 3

mkdir has a flag -p that creates all the parent directories of the directory you're creating if needed. you can just just read each line, turn it into a path (ie s/ /\\//g ) and call mkdir -p $path on each line

Answer 4

1) Do something like this

find . -type d > folder_list.txt

to create a list of the folders you need to create.

2) Transfer the list to your destination

3) Recreate the structure in your new location:

cat folder_list.txt | xargs mkdir

notice that you don't need '-p' option in this case though it wouldn't hurt too.

Answer 5

I use this script in my .bash_profile that I use for new projects:

alias project_setup="mkdir Sites Documents Applications Website_Graphics Mockups Logos Colors Requirements Wireframes"

If you want to make a nested folder structure you you could do something like:

alias shared_setup="mkdir Shared shared/projects shared/series shared/movies shared/movies/action"

Answer 6

Assuming you wish to create a tree of folders / directories as below:

  tmpdir ________|______ | | | branches tags trunk | sources ____|_____ | | includes docs 

Also assuming that you have a variable that mentions the directory names.
DOMAIN_NAME=includes,docs

You may issue below command:
$ eval "mkdir -p tmpdir/{trunk/sources/{${DOMAIN_NAME}},branches,tags}"

Note: use the BASH version that supports curly-braces expansion.