mkdir Command Not Found in shell script within if loop

Question

I have simple script below,

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
mkdir "$c"
fi

$c is containing the folder path. I got the error mkdir: command not found. please help me out.

Thanks in advance. Navdeep

ray · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-27 13:00:24Z

13

can you run mkdir in your login session?

If you can, most probably the problem is caused by PATH in your script, try suing full path:

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi

or export PATH first

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH
if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi

edited Dec 27, 2013 at 13:00

answered Dec 27, 2013 at 12:49

ray

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Navdeep Over a year ago

Thanks alot, it worked. I have wasted my 3 hours on that only. thanks again.

Md Shihab Uddin Over a year ago

I faced the same problem. Then i found that i've written readonly PATH="$OPTARG" in my script and the exported PATH variable in .bash_profile is being overwritten. so mkdir command is not found. Very bad, I should be more careful to set variable.

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