Create folders from text file

mandorory · 2011-01-28 16:32:37

can anyone show me how to create directories from a text file.
each line = 1 folder

name
name lastname
and so on...

thanks in advance

SS4 · 2011-01-28 16:37:12

For ones without spaces you can use

mkdir -p $(cat file)

edit 1: if the paths aren't absolute it will be better to cd into the directory you want to create them in

Last edited by SS4 (2011-01-28 16:37:59)

Xyne · 2011-01-28 16:46:20

#!/bin/bash
IFS='
'
for _dir in $(cat "$1"); do
  mkdir "$_dir"
done

Invoke it with the path to the text file.

mandorory · 2011-01-28 16:48:11

Thanks a lot that was fast.

i was trying to get this command to work but it kept putting ? and spaces at the end of the name

while read line; do mkdir -v "$line"; done < test.txt

how would i fix that?

mandorory · 2011-01-28 16:53:03

Xyne wrote:

#!/bin/bash
IFS='
'
for _dir in $(cat "$1"); do
  mkdir "$_dir"
done
Invoke it with the path to the text file.

I tried that but it still put "?" at the end of the name
some of the names have up to 30 characters in length

Xyne · 2011-01-28 16:56:24

Both that, and your "read" loop work for me. Maybe there's something wrong with the encoding of your file.

Can you post the test.txt file that you're using so that I can test it?

Last edited by Xyne (2011-01-28 16:56:54)

skunktrader · 2011-01-28 17:09:57

Perhaps your input file has msdos style line terminators ie \r\n

Xyne · 2011-01-28 18:00:28

skunktrader wrote:

Perhaps your input file has msdos style line terminators ie \r\n

That's what I'm thinking.

mandorory · 2011-01-28 18:48:45

Xyne wrote:

skunktrader wrote:
Perhaps your input file has msdos style line terminators ie \r\n
That's what I'm thinking.

well it was created in notepad and the list was copied from a Excel sheet, how would i go about removing that?

Xyne · 2011-01-28 19:56:04

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-unix … xt-format/

mandorory · 2011-01-28 20:33:48

Thanks

mandorory · 2011-01-28 21:26:18

One more question, I got the folders created now, but when i access it from a windows computer through the network the name of the folder goes from

Name Of Company 1

to

NFSDGF2~1

but on Linux it doesn't.

im using samba shares

Arch Linux

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