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Asked: 2010-03-23 16:25:20 +0800 CST

Bash script to create mass series of directories

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I need to create a Bash script to go into every user's home folder, seek out a wp-content folder, create a directory uploads under it, and then chmod 0756 uploads.

How do I achieve this?

I imagine I need to use find with a regexp/regex, and then tell it to run another bash script on the results.

bash regex find

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Something like this should work (I haven't tested it)

    dirs=`find /home -type d -name "wp-content"` 

for dir in $dirs; do
    if [ ! -e $dir/uploads ]; then 
        mkdir $dir/uploads
        chmod 0765 $dir/uploads
    fi
done
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  2. The above answer is a better one, but here is a primitive, but functional, alternative:

    for i in user1 user2;do mkdir $i/wp-content;chmod 0765 $i/wp-content;done

    This assumes you are in the parent directory of all your users, and they are in the same directory.

    This will also fail if there is a file named "uploads", but will continue on.

    Good luck,

    --jed

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