mkdir Command Not Found in shell script within if loop

Question

I have simple script below,

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
mkdir "$c"
fi

$c is containing the folder path. I got the error mkdir: command not found. please help me out.

Thanks in advance. Navdeep

Answer 1

can you run mkdir in your login session?

If you can, most probably the problem is caused by PATH in your script, try suing full path:

if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi

or export PATH first

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH
if [ ! -e $c ];
then
/bin/mkdir -p "$c"
fi