Bash mkdir and subfolders

Question

Why I can't do something like this? mkdir folder/subfolder/ in order to achive this I have to do:

mkdir folder
cd folder
mkdir subfolder

Is there a better way to do it?

Solution 1

You can:

mkdir -p folder/subfolder

The -p flag causes any parent directories to be created if necessary.

Solution 2

To create multiple sub-folders

mkdir -p parentfolder/{subfolder1,subfolder2,subfolder3}

Solution 3

FWIW,

Poor mans security folder (to protect a public shared folder from little prying eyes ;) )

mkdir -p {0..9}/{0..9}/{0..9}/{0..9}

Now you can put your files in a pin numbered folder. Not exactly waterproof, but it's a barrier for the youngest.

Comments

[Abu Shoeb]

your folder and subfolder name can be a variable name as well. For example $data_dir='data' and $sub='subdir'. Then we can create directories like mkdir -p $data_dir/$sub

[kpie]

lol that's cute

[crgarridos]

I upvote this because it made my day (lol) and also learned me something new, thanks :D

[faghani]

So nice! But a bash rich man can break it by using a command like du -h --max-depth=4 | sort -hr!