A script for macos that creates and names individual folders from a .txt file containing the list of names of these; place these dynamically named subfolders in the /Users/shared directory and name the parent folder: subfolders followed by the timestamp
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # a script for macos that creates and names individual folders from a .txt file containing the list of names of these; place these dynamically named subfolders in the /Users/shared directory and name the parent folder: subfolders followed by the timestamp | |
| # Get the current timestamp | |
| timestamp=$(date "+%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S") | |
| # Define the parent directory path | |
| parent_dir="/Users/Shared/subfolders_$timestamp" | |
| # Create the parent directory | |
| mkdir "$parent_dir" | |
| # Iterate over each line in the file | |
| while IFS= read -r line | |
| do | |
| # Create a new directory for each line in the file | |
| mkdir "$parent_dir/$line" | |
| done < 'file.txt' |
