Month: August 2009

FILES & FOLDERS PART-II CREATING FOLDERS :Cmd4a : Creating a single folder. #mkdir foldernameExample :#mkdir testCmd4b : Creating multiple folders at a time#mkdir 1{1,2,3}This command will create folders with name 11,12,13. You can see weather this folders are created or not by using ls or dir command. Cmd4c : Creating multiple directories and sub directories at a time. This is very much advanced and very much useful command. Some times we have to create a directory structure with sub directories in it. Which are not exist before.For example I want to create the directory structure as below               /test                /               /                /                 user1       user2       /              /      /               /       /                /          apple   goa pine     tomSo if I want to create these many folders at a time i have to execute the following commands.First i have to create test directory, then I have to change the directory to it and the create two more directories as user1 and user2 and so on as below.#mkdir test#cd test#mkdir user1#mkdir user2#cd user1#mkdir apple#mkdir goa#cd ..#cd user2#mkdir pine#mkdir tomSo you see these many commands i have to execute to create that directory structure. But in linux, it’s very much easy if you know this option with mkdir command. Execute the mkdir command with -p option it will create subdirectories though they didnt exist. #mkdir -p test/{user1/{apple,goa}, user2/{pine,tom}}Thats it you are done....