Linux folder creation

[lior1111]

Hello . linux noob here! , currently studying linux within a cyber course im attending to and i have an assignment im having a hard time figuring out with just google in hands. i wanted to know if theres a way to create a folder and subfolders within that folder in just one command. i managed to do something like that - Mkdir support ; mkdir support/support{1..3}
but i was wondering , as this is pretty much two codes in one line , if theres a way to do the same with a single command.

Thanks upfront!

[Sauron]

mkdir -p /path/to/folder

 

https://linux.die.net/man/1/mkdir

 

In general you can access manual pages on linux with

man <command>

 

[lior1111]

6 minutes ago, Sauron said:

mkdir -p /path/to/folder

 

https://linux.die.net/man/1/mkdir

 

In general you can access manual pages on linux with

man <command>

 

thanks  i know about man , im quite familiar with linux aleardy , but this is quite tricky because while i did know about mkdir -p , how do you make several folders in the main folders like that? i tried the following:

mkdir -p /path/to/{folder1..folder3}

but it just made a subfolder named {folder1..folder3}

i want something that can , in one command , have the same effect as the following:

mkdir support ; mkdir support/support{1..3}

essentially , creating 3 subfolders within that folder that im creating in this one command

if its even possible?
and also to not have like {x,x,x} , but having an option to create even 100 subfolders respectively , like {support1...support100}

 

[Sauron]

40 minutes ago, lior1111 said:

if its even possible?

It's not possible using just mkdir but you can use a simple bash one liner:

 

for ((i=1; i <= 5 ; i++)); do echo "./path/to/folder_$i" | xargs -L 1 mkdir -p ; done

obviously replacing 1 and 5 with the range you want  

[lior1111]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

It's not possible using just mkdir but you can use a simple bash one liner:

 

for ((i=1; i <= 5 ; i++)); do echo "./path/to/folder_$i" | xargs -L 1 mkdir -p ; done

obviously replacing 1 and 5 with the range you want  

thanks alot man  i got my answer

[vlads_]

Or just 

mkdir -p support/support1 support/support2 support/support3

if it's not too much to write.