Create directory and files with one command

Question

I want to make a command/function to mkdir and touch my directory and files quickly.

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Terminal: cd PROJECT :

PROJECT

Terminal: quickcreate home index.js style.css... . The tree looks like:

PROJECT __ home __ index.html
                \_ style.css
                \_ ...

Do manually:

mkdir home
touch home/index.html
touch home/style.css
touch home/...

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I want to write a command like this:

function quickcreate {
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
  echo "No arg supplied!"
  return 0
else
  mkdir $1
  # how can I do with S2, S3, .... to touch S1/S2 S1/S3...?
}

Answer 1

You can use shift to remove positional arguments one by one.

Don't forget to double quote the directory and file names so the script works for names containing whitespace, too.

mkdir "$1"
dir=$1
shift
while (( $# )) ; do
    touch "$dir/$1"
    shift
done

Answer 2

I recommend -p .

qc() { local p="$1";
  if [[ -n "$p" ]];
  then mkdir -p "$p" # can be any full or relative path;
  else echo "Use: qc <dirpath> [f1[..fN]]"; return 1;
  fi;
  shift;
  for f; do touch "$p/$f"; done;
}

$: qc
Use: qc <dirpath> [f1[..fN]]

$: cd /tmp
$: qc a/b/c 5 4 3 2 1    # relative path
$: qc a/b                # no files; dir already exists; no problem
$: qc /tmp/a/b/c/d 3 2 1 # full path that partially exists
$: find a                # all ok
a
a/b
a/b/c
a/b/c/1
a/b/c/2
a/b/c/3
a/b/c/4
a/b/c/5
a/b/c/d
a/b/c/d/1
a/b/c/d/2
a/b/c/d/3

Answer 3

This is another method you can use for what you want, that is using arrays :

function quickcreate {
  if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "No arg supplied!"
    return 0
  else
    dir="${@::1}"
    files=(${@:1})

    mkdir "$dir"

    for file in "${files[@]}"; do
      touch $dir/$file
    done 
}