in reply to Creating Multiple Empty Directories with Perl

I know everyone's happy to use Perl for everything, but this is overkill here. GNU's mkdir(1) takes multiple arguments. If the desired directory names are truly a numeric range, then you can use seq(1). 
mkdir `seq -f dir%g 1 20`

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Re^2: Creating Multiple Empty Directories with Perl
by ForgotPasswordAgain (Vicar) on Sep 28, 2005 at 16:44 UTC
    mkdir dir{1..20}
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