mkdir from result of ls

Question

I want to list all folders from /media/movies and create folders with the same name in /tmp/movies
The following snippet works fine for me except for names with spaces, not sure how to quote here

mkdir /tmp/movies
cd /tmp/movies/
ls -1 -d /media/share/*/ | xargs mkdir

In the names are also parentheses ( and ) and single qutes '

Example

You're Next (2011) (tt1853739)

Answer 1

cd /media/movies
for dir in */
do
  mkdir "/tmp/movies/$dir"
done

Or on one line:

cd /media/movies && for dir in */; do mkdir "/tmp/movies/$dir"; done

Answer 2

This should work:

find /media/movies -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "mkdir /tmp/\"$(basename {})\"" \;

If you have still quoting issues try this:

find /media/movies -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf "%f" -exec mkdir "/tmp/{}" \;

Answer 3

You can use the -I option in xargs to set exactly where the output from ls -1 occurs. Then you can put the output inside quotes so that names with spaces are treated as a single word. Try this:

ls -1 /media/share/ | xargs -I % mkdir "%"