seblavoie · September 28, 2012 19:21
diff --git a/.bash_profile b/.bash_profile
 # Creates folder structure from plain text.
 # Based on this stackoverflow question and answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12642260/better-bash-script-to-create-directory-structure
 mkdirs($file) {
  sed -f mkdirs.sed $file | xargs mkdir -p
 }
diff --git a/mkdirs.sed b/mkdirs.sed
 #!/bin/sed -f

 s/^//
 x
 G
 : loop
 s:\([^/]*\)/*\(.*\n\)\([^|]*\)|\s:\2\3\1/:
 t loop

 s/.*\n//
 s:/*$::
 h
diff --git a/structure.txt b/structure.txt
 folder-01
 | subfolder-01
 | subfolder-02
 | | deeper-subfolder-01
 | | deeper-subfolder-02
 folder-02
	# Creates folder structure from plain text.
	# Based on this stackoverflow question and answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12642260/better-bash-script-to-create-directory-structure
	mkdirs($file) {
	sed -f mkdirs.sed $file \| xargs mkdir -p
	}