Cornelius,
Cornelius Mostert wrote:
>> Are you doing this to avoid the mkdir if the directory you are creating
>> already exists? If so, then the is an option -p which means it is not an
>> error if the directory already exists. It also creates parent
>> directories as needed, so:
>>
>> mkdir -p $newPath/Sound/MP3
>> mkdir -o $newpath/Sound/wav
Oops! That last line should read:
mkdir -p $newPath/Sound/wav
>> will do what you want without the need to test.
>> (BTW, it's forward slashes / in Linux, not backslahes!)
>> Of course, I may have misunderstood what you are trying to achieve.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tony.
>
> Thanx I will try the -p option.
> As I understand it the \ is to pipe whatever onto what is infront of
> the \ so it reads Get the Variable and Pipe the following onto it ...
You were using it as a separator in a path to separate the various
directory names. In Linux/Unix that should be a forward slash (/).
Windows uses the backslash (\) for such purposes.
As others have pointed out, pipes are something else.
> You have understood my question...
Oh good! I was worried I had missed something!
Regards,
Tony.
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