mkdir -p , which <> | vi

[lucky10101]

Hi Friends i usually do this task

(i) I usually make multiple dir using -p option

ex: mkdir -p dicttest/audrep/tdriver/test

Now after creating this dir's i stay in current dir instead i want to go directly to test dir how can i acheive this.

(ii) When i execute which command as follows

which testerm i will get the location of testterm now i want to open this file

when i did in this way

which testterm | vi

The file dosent get opened how can i acheive this ?

ex:

linuxx86:110$ which testterm
/view/rdl110_linuxx86/vobs_usrrdl/sc/testterm
linuxx86:110$ which testterm| vi
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...

Vim: Finished.
linuxx86:110$

(iii) I want to grep for a string in all files present in current dir excluding sub dir, sometimes including sub dir how can i acheive this i do this task on almost all platforms.

[dmjlambert]

You can add these function defs to your .profile or .bashrc

mkdirandcd(){ mkdir -p $1;cd $1;}
whichandvi(){ F=`which $1`;vi $F;}

You now have 2 more commands you can use, mkdirandcd and whichandvi.

and for the grep question I usually do something like this to show which files have my search pattern, including in subdirectories:

grep -l pattern `find . -type f`

Note that the quote marks in the above posting are backticks, same key on your keyboard that has the ~

[dmjlambert]

There is also a recursive grep in some linux varieties, either rgrep or use -r option. Look in the man pages about that. I didn't mention this at first because the grep and find combination works across different platforms, which you mentioned you want to do (HPUX, Solaris, Linux, OSX, etc.). You can also do a find command and use the -exec option to do the grep on each file found. Google "grep subdirectories" for some clever examples.

[lucky10101]

Thanks friend

And to add to grep now i am using

grep -in <pattern> *

its working great for me.