[H-GEN] Creating a directory in a group of /usr/username directories

Mark Suter mark at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Sat Oct 30 00:35:33 EDT 1999


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Hilton,

> I need to be able to create a directory called "tutorials" inside all the
> /usr/student/dipmm01 to /usr/student/dipmm20 accounts on an SGI Origin 2000.
> Without manually creating this directory in each user's home, is there any
> perl or awk script that can achieve this?

Not as such - this is a very simple task.

> It look slike I should learn one of these languages.  Which one (NOT
> FLAMEBAIT) would be the best for this sort of application - creating
> directory structures?

Use the shell, Luke!

    cd /usr/student
    for user in dipmm[0-1][0-9] dipmm20 ; do
    	mkdir $user/tutorials
	chown $user $user/tutorials
    done

Yours sincerely,

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