Alias Mkf

I found it annoying to have to make folders for things like log keeping in my script...it usualy looked something like this

if (!$isdir(foldername)) { mkdir foldername }

if (!$isdir(foldername\subfolder)) { mkdir foldername\subfolder }

To ease the keystrokes I came up with this alias;

alias mkf {
  tokenize 32 $1-
  var %a 1
  while (%a <= $numtok($1-,32)) {
    set %b $+(%b,$gettok($1-,%a,32),\)
    mkdir %b
    inc %a
  }
  unset %a , %b
}

/mkf foldername1 foldername2...foldernameN

if you want to make more than one sub folder in any given folder simply repeat the command

/mkf soldername1 foldername2.5

and you now have two second level sub folders!

Note:

This can potentialy make an infinate amount of nested folders. I tested it up to one hundred nested folders with no problems!

~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v~^v

It became even more tedious when I had things like the date or the time as the folder name. So to make it simple(ish) I made this.

alias fdate {
  return $date(dddd-mmmm-dd-yyyy)
}
alias ftime {
  return $time(hh.nn.ss.TT)
}

/mkf logs fdate

Now I can have tmy log files sorted by date with a few keystrokes!

Closing comments

I could probabley add a line to the mkf alias to check if the folder exists...

"...

if (!$isdir(%) {

mkdir %b

...

"

but it works fine the way it is now.

I hope this is found to be useful to someone...if you use this snippet - even if you change it in any way - please send me a copy of the script you used this in. That way I can learn and grow in my ability.

nice addon

my only suggestion is on the variables.. instead of just setting %b you could just var %b like you did with %a then there is no need to unset %a and %b.

There is also a snippet section on the site where you could add these located here http://www.tg007.net/page/snippet

again well done, good idea.

I thought I had 'set %a' also...my bad.

I didn't feel it was worthy the bandwidth to upload as a file in its own right. But if you insist, I'll fix the 'set' and ad /* comment tags */ then upload it to the appropriate section.

Thank you for the feedback!

Adding to err0r's suggestion, you can include the -l switch for your set command. The -l switch makes it local:

set -l %a value

set -l %b value

This makes them function exactly the same as the /var option.

The -l switch is undocumented.