creating folder with date range linux shell or C

Question

Hi i need to create a series of folder with a range of date for exmaple

createdir 2010-02-02 2010-02-05

will create :

20100202/ 20100203/ 20100204/ 20100205/

What the best way to do this with a Shell Script or with a C POSIX program?

Answer 1

This question was answered in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4351282/how-to-generate-a-sequence-of-dates-given-starting-and-ending-dates-using-awk-of . I like the @camh answwer.

You can create a shell script with this content,

#!/bin/bash
#./createdir 2010-02-02 2010-02-05

startdate=$1
enddate=$2

for d in $(seq $(date +%s -d $startdate) +86400 $(date +%s -d $enddate)); do
  mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d -d @$d)
done