Help with Command

[anuj576]

Hey Guys,

mkdir -p work/{inbox,outbox,pending}/{normal,urgent,important}

Can you explain what the above commnd outputs and how it works.

Thanks
Anuj Sharma

[zombykillah]

Hi,
mkdir = create directory
-p if it's needed to create a parent directory first do so
work/{inbox,outbox,pending}/{normal,urgent,important}
create the directorys:
work/inbox/normal
work/inbox/urgent
work/inbox/important
...
...
...
work/pending/important

So to say it short:
It's a command to create a little directory tree.

With { } you can give an array to bash.
The script will be started with each given value in it.
P.s.: Hope I got that right, I'm not so sure myself.