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Tuesday 30 October 2012

Linux Bash Scripting: How to create directories for each day of the current month

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Bash Linux Unix shell scripting

 In this post I have written a script that creates an empty directory for each day of the current month. I used cal command to get the date and month instead of using date command. The reason is that the date command does not work in Solaris. To make it portable, I have used cal command.

The below script does the following
  • It takes the total number of days of the current month 
  • It gets the current month name from the cal command
  • It gets the current year from the cal command
  • It creates an empty directory for each day of the current month
  • Before creating, this checks whether the directory already exists, if yes, the script exits by displaying a message.



You can change the "dir" to the directory in which you want the folders to be created.

3 comments:

  1. Md Abu, very nice blog, all the best.

    Allah hafiz

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  2. tail: cannot open '3' for reading: No such file or directory
    seq: missing operand
    Try 'seq --help' for more information.

    ReplyDelete

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