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I am trying to create a directory within a folder that is retrieved by a find command. I came up with something like this:

find . -regex '.*\/foo' | mkdir -v foo2

But it doesn't work.

Help please.

griessh

Hi oracleapprentice,

find . -type d -name '*foo' | read; cd $REPLY; mkdir foo2; cd -

This won't work if you are expecting more than one '*foo' dirs

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Werner

Gns

.... In which case you'd need do it like a for loop, and create the subdir in every found result...
(also a slight amendment Werner, I think s/he's looking for the fixed name "foo", not any dir ending in foo)
for dir in `find . -type d -name "foo"`; do cd $dir; mkdir foo2; cd $OLDPWD; done

(Also take care with regexs' and globs including ".*"... At least when recursing ... not so bad here though:-)

-- Glenn

oracleapprentice

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I found this to work for me.

find . -regex '.*\/foo' -exec mkdir -v '{}/foo2' \;

Gns

Hm, ok. Just another little warning, that solution relies on GNU find (which is not generally available on Unix systems) while the (slightly simplified) for loop solution works on most any unix/linux (note also that most mkdir versions don't have the -v flag either):
for dir in `find . -type d -name "foo"`; do mkdir $dir/foo2; done

-- Glenn

Tintin

Easy enough for a portable find solution (maybe a few rare exceptions)

find . -type d -name "*foo" -exec mkdir '{}/foo2' \;

Gns

The glob is still wrong Tintin, but otherwise true:-)

-- Glenn

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