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I want to create directories with given names through shell script in one go.. rather than writing mkdir command for n number of times to create n number of directories.

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  • Including actual examples of the problem you are trying to solve makes it so much easier to help. The answer below is correct for one interpretation of your problem. I think you mean mkdir -p /nonexisting/dir/nonesuch/v2 which will create that set of directories, even though none of them exist. In the future, use man mkdir to see available options. Good luck. Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 15:29

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mkdir is able to take any number of arguments, so:

mkdir a b c

would make the trick without the need of any script.

If you really want comma separated list then:

 mkdir `echo a,b,c | sed -e 's/,/ /g'`

will make it.

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thanks.... I'm not much aware of unix commands. So I wasn't thought that way. Thank you for pointing that :)

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