passing data between scripts

[nanogoo]

I have a script which parses for differences in directories listed in a file using egrep and awk I can pick out missing directories but now want to pass this to a mkdir command using some form of redirection i.e. the find / egrep gets me back the paths that are missing, how do I pass individual entries to mkdir simply?

[lomcevak]

Use xargs. For example:

find <whatever> | egrep <whatever> | xargs mkdir -p

The missing directories will be appended to the end of the mkdir command.

[matonb]

As Iomcevak has said xargs is what your after.
If your script to find the missing paths outputs is complex, you might find it easier to pipe that into xargs i.e.

<your script> | xargs mkdir -p