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Scott
Asked: 2011-09-14 07:39:38 +0800 CST

create a specific directory within each directory in bash

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We're running an application on RHEL and it is trying to write a mysterious log file to a directory that doesn't exist. I'm trying to determine a find command that could go through each sub-directory in development and mkdir log without creating a recursive indefinite loop in the process. So if my folder structure from a very basic redacted view was similar to:

-dir1
--dir11
--dir12
-dir2
--dir21
--dir22
-dir3
--dir31
--dir32

I would want the end result to be

-dir1
--dir11
---log
--dir12
---log
--log
-dir2
--dir21
---log
--dir22
---log
--log
-dir3
--dir31
---log
--dir32
---log
--log

what bash command could create this structure?

bash rhel5 mkdir

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Assuming your top-level directory is /development:

    find /development -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mkdir {}/log
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