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Flo Ryan
Flo Ryan

Reputation: 443

mkdir issue in bash script

I am trying to create a folder tree using the mkdir command, which is supposed to have the following structure:

rootfs
├── Fol1
│   ├── Fol11
│   └── Fol12
└── Fol2

I sucessfully created this tree using

mkdir -p /rootfs/{Fol1/{Fol11,Fol12},Fol2}

However the folder rootfs is supposed to be variable, which is why I tried

ROOT=/rootfs
FOLDERTREE=/{Fol1/{Fol11,Fol12},Fol2}
mkdir -p "$ROOT$FILETREE"

Although echo "$ROOT$FILETREE" yields exactly /rootfs/{Fol1/{Fol11,Fol12},Fol2} I do get a wrong filetree

rootfs
└── {Fol1
    └── {Fol11,Fol12},Fol2}

What am I doing wrong here ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 133

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785058

You can use BASH array to keep all the directory paths as:

dirs=( "${ROOT}"/{Fol1/{Fol11,Fol12},Fol2} )

Then create it as:

mkdir -p "${dirs[@]}"

Upvotes: 4

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 780869

Braces are not processed in the result of variable substitution. Use:

mkdir -p "$ROOT"/{Fol1/{Fol11,Fol12},Fol2}

Upvotes: 5

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