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 && 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?
mkdir B && touch B/myfile.txt
Alternatively, create a function:
mkfile() { mkdir -p -- "$1" && 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.
This, however does not support TAB completion unlike a "real" command like
mkdirdoes.