Re: don't want to mkdir if it already exists

On 2007-04-05, paintedjazz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
....
However, I have discovered one more issue that is slightly related.
Besides the my.thumbnails subdirectory, my script also creates
subdirectories
entitled my.padded and my.flexible and this (using the find command)
is what my script is creating now:

./ImageGallery/my.flexible # GOOD
./ImageGallery/my.padded # GOOD
./ImageGallery/my.padded/my.flexible # BAD
./ImageGallery/my.padded/my.thumbnails # BAD
./ImageGallery/my.thumbnails # GOOD
./ImageGallery/my.thumbnails/my.flexible # BAD
./ImageGallery/my.thumbnails/my.padded # BAD

my.flexible and my.padded and my.thumbnails
should never be subdirectories of each other.
Now all three use the same case statement as above.
Is there a way that I could modify the case statement
to prevent this?

It looks as if you have a nested loop. Remove it.

If that doesn't solve the problem, post your script.

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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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