mkdir Command Not Found in shell script within if loop

Question

I have simple script below,

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
mkdir "$c"
fi

$c is containing the folder path. I got the error mkdir: command not found. please help me out.

Thanks in advance. Navdeep

Solution

can you run mkdir in your login session?

If you can, most probably the problem is caused by PATH in your script, try suing full path:

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi

or export PATH first

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH
if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi

Comments

[Navdeep]

Thanks alot, it worked. I have wasted my 3 hours on that only. thanks again.

[Md Shihab Uddin]

I faced the same problem. Then i found that i've written readonly PATH="$OPTARG" in my script and the exported PATH variable in .bash_profile is being overwritten. so mkdir command is not found. Very bad, I should be more careful to set variable.