[Novalug] Is this one or more commands

Tux subscriber Dave Aronson tux2dave at davearonson.com
Thu Sep 13 13:26:12 EDT 2007


Jay Hart [mailto:jhart at kevla.org] wonders:

 > not sure if single command, or something where they
 > are showing you the additional directories that need to be make?
 > 
 > mkdir -p /stack/postfix_ relay/{config,usr,usr/sbin,usr/bin,queue}

Looks to me like they basically mean "for x in the list, make $prefix/$x".  I suppose some shells may be able to parse that, but I don't recall seeing syntax like that, so AFAICT it's meant to be looped through manually.

-Dave

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