bash and strings

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On 03:43:24 Nov 16, jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> I'm sure this is easy, and I am making it harder than it is.
> 
> I am being supplied a list of files, and need to create the files and
> directories to hold them, but I cannot figure out how to take the string
> apart.
> 
> For example, I am given
> 
> /usr/local/scripts/firewall.sh
> 
> I need to create the /usr/local/scripts directory and then create
> firewall.sh.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat. :)

Perhaps you will like mine.

DIR=`dirname $path`
FILE=`basename $path`
/bin/mkdir -p $DIR
cd
touch $FILE

You can put this in a loop with path as loop variable.

Best of luck!

regards,
Girish