One command to create a directory and file inside it linux command

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Suppose my current directory is A  I want to create a directory B and a file  myfile txt  inside B   How to do that in one command from Terminal   Edit   Directory can be nested multiple times  Like I may want to create B C D and then  myfile txt  inside that  I do not also want to repeat the directory part   Following command will create directory at any level   mkdir -p B C D    and   mkdir -p B C D  amp  amp  touch B C D myfile txt   will create the directory and the file  But I do not want to repeat the directory part after the touch command  Is that possible

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You could create a function that parses argument with sed;

atouch() {
  mkdir -p $(sed 's/\(.*\)\/.*/\1/' <<< $1) && touch $1
}

and then, execute it with one argument:

atouch B/C/D/myfile.txt

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Below commands I tried on Windows 10 machine with  git-bash  And that worked for me  Let s say I want to create a directory named  quot Files quot  and under this directory I want to have  quot file1 txt file2 txt file3 txt quot    etc files mkdir Files  amp  amp  touch    file1 txt    file2 txt    file3 txt

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This might work   mkdir   FOLDER NAME   cd   FOLDER NAME   touch   FOLDER NAME   file txt

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mkdir -p Python Beginner CH01  amp  amp  touch    hello world py  Explanation  -p - gt  use -p if you wanna create parent and child directories    - gt  use it for current directory we work with it inline

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Just a simple command below is enough   mkdir a  amp  amp  touch    file txt   Thx

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For this purpose  you can create your own function  For example     echo  mkfile     mkdir -p    dirname   1     amp  amp  touch   1         gt  gt     bashrc   source    bashrc   mkfile   fldr1 fldr2 file txt   Explanation    Insert the function to the end of    bashrc file using the echo command The -p flag is for creating the nested folders  such as fldr2 Update the    bashrc file with the source command Use the mkfile function to create the file

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you can install the script    pip3 install --user advance-touch   After installed  you can use ad command  ad airport plane captain txt   airport   -- plane        -- captain txt

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devnull s answer provides a function   mkfile     mkdir -p --   1   amp  amp  touch --   1    2      This function did not work for me as is  I m running bash 4 3 48 on WSL Ubuntu   but did work once I removed the double dashes  So  this worked for me   echo  mkfile     mkdir -p   1   amp  amp  touch   1    2      gt  gt     bash profile source    bash profile mkfile sample dir test file

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add this to    bashrc  function mkfile          mkdir -p   quot  1 quot   amp  amp  touch   quot  1 quot   quot  2 quot      save and then to make it available without a reboot or logout execute    source    bashrc or you can just do    mkdir folder  amp  amp  touch    file txt  note that      folder

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mkdir B  amp  amp  touch B myfile txt   Alternatively  create a function   mkfile     mkdir -p --   1   amp  amp  touch --   1    2      Execute it with 2 arguments  path to create and filename   Saying   mkfile B C D myfile txt   would create the file myfile txt in the directory B C D

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