Creating a Directory from a Sentence Replacing Spaces with Dashes

01 Sep 2025

Sometimes we want to create a directory without having to think too hard.

Try the following mkdir $(echo "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" |tr ' ' '-'). It creates a directory named Lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet.

I prefer directories as all lowercase so let’s do that as well with mkdir $(echo "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" | tr ' ' '-' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')

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