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Aakash
Aakash

Reputation: 23737

How do I create more than one file in specific folder without repeating the path name?

How can I create more than one file within a folder with the touch command? More specifically, lets say, I want to create three new files - local.js, facebook.js and twitter.js in a folder that has path config/strategies/. This is what I am currently doing:

touch config/strategies/local.js config/strategies/facebook.js config/strategies/twitter.js.

What I want to know is if there is a shorter way to do this.

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 41

Answers (1)

John1024
John1024

Reputation: 113834

You can use bash's brace expansion:

$ touch config/strategies/{local,facebook,twitter}.js
$ ls config/strategies/
facebook.js  local.js  twitter.js

More Information

Brace expansion comes in two forms. The first uses commas between items in the list:

$ echo 1{b,c}2
1b2 1c2

The second uses .. and causes a sequence of words to be created:

$ echo 1{a..f}2
1a2 1b2 1c2 1d2 1e2 1f2

With a sequence, it is also possible to specify an increment:

$ echo 1{a..f..2}2
1a2 1c2 1e2

With 2 specified as the increment, then every other letter between a and f is generated by the expansion

Upvotes: 4

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