Creating multiple directories simultaneously

[Daniel Bye]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:12:48AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several directories,
> actually a parent direct and several sub-directories simultaneously;
> however, I cannot fine the documentation any longer.
> 
> Assume I want to create a directory: FOO with three directories under
> it, foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3. I tried: mkdir -p foo {foo-1, foo-2, foo-3}

Almost.

 $ mkdir -p FOO/{foo-1,foo-2,foo-3}

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Daniel Bye
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