Question

I’ve written a code for searching a specific file , where the user enters a starting path and a filename , and then the program prints its details if the file exists , or prints not found otherwise.

The code is based on recursion . I want to test it with a large folder hierarchy , let’s say 1000 folders , one inside the other , and put a file called david.txt inside the 1000th folder .

How can I do that without creating 1000 times folders for the next 3 hours ?

The code is written in C , under Ubuntu .

Thanks

Answer 1

Type the following in your shell:

mkdir -p folder$( seq -s "/folder" 999 )1000

Then you can enter this folder:

cd folder$( seq -s "/folder" 999 )1000

and create a file:

touch david.txt

and come back to your previous dir:

cd -