mkdir -p in a for loop

[Steve Givens]

I am getting some unexpected results when running the following:

for db in 'dev masdev'
do
mkdir -p -m 775 $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$db/scripts
done


Instead of getting 2 directory structures like:
drwxrwxr-x ... dev/scripts
drwxrwxr-x ... masdev/scripts

I am getting this:

drwxrwxr-x ... dev (nothing under dev)
drwxr-xr-x ... masdev
drwxrwxr-x ... masdev/scripts

I'm confused! ;)

set -x shows
+ mkdir -p -m 775 /u01/app/oracle/admin/dev masdev/scripts

[Keith Johnson · Accepted solution]

Change your for statement to:

for db in dev masdev

and it should work as you expect.

[Steve Givens]

doh!

That did it thanks. I thought I would need quotes around the dbnames.

Thanks,

Steve

[Steve Givens]

resolved