Create directory structure from a no. 1

[RVSachin]

Hi,

If I input a no., for example, 123456, then how do I create a directory-structure as follows after reading the input using Korn-Shell:

d:/123000s/123400s/123456

Thanks,

RV

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
typeset -Z6 i
read i
a=$(($i/1000*1000))
b=$(($i/100*100))
mkdir -p d:/${a}s/${b}s/$i

Hope This Help, PH.
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[RVSachin]

Thanks for providing the solution, PHV.

Out of curiosity, I thought of knowing if there's a way of doing this by reading the input no. as a string, read the required part of the string, append appropriate no. of zeroes and create a directory structure using these strings.
I agree that this is a complicated process, just out of curiosity, I wanted to know this.

Thanks again for your time, PHV.

- RV

 

[Ygor]

This should work for strings or numbers...
[tt]
read i
mkdir -p d:/${i%???}000s/${i%??}00s/$i[/tt]