Move newly created text files to a var created directory - bash

Question

I have several text docs that are created each day from templates. This process I've achieved successfully albeit probably in a Cro-Magnon way. I want these newly created text files to be filed within a newly created dated folder.
The script creates the file docs from the templates successfully and also creates the newly dated directory. I don't really want to create these text files somewhere else and then move them to the newly created directory. Rather that they be created directly within it. All my research tends to involve directories that already exist rather than one created from a var.
I've included just one file creation example below.
Hope you can help. TIA
today=`date '+%y%m%d'`;
today_Folder=~/Desktop/test/"${today}"
if [[ ! -d $today_Folder ]]
then
mkdir "${today_Folder} `(date '+%A')`"
fi
cat ~/Desktop/test/template.txt >> ~/Desktop/test/dest.txt
P.S. I've tried to make the cat command regarding the text files clearer - it simply creates files. I'm NOT trying to create a tree of directories. Simply ONE newly created directory that could be in test along with the text files.

Answer 1

Your question is how to dynamically create a file, also creating all the path to contain that file? That's not possible in any intuitive/portable way, and it's not typically programs always have to create the directory before the file. What you can do is pass the -p flag to mkdir. On Linux systems (this may also not be portable), this flag means "create all the directories necessary for this path". Zero directories is okay, so you don't need to check whether the directory already exists. So change the whole if block to just this:
mkdir -p "${today_Folder} `(date '+%A')`"
Also, it's kind of smelly the way you want a string (the path) and you're using three operations to create it. Could it be simpler? You want more statements when they add clarity, but in this case the steps are so simple that the only thing accomplished is to make your colleagues go up and read what you wrote more than once. It might suit to change it to:
dir_path=...
mkdir -p "${dir_path}"
To accomplish this, keep in mind that instead of backticks, you can add command substitution with $(). It helps since backticks can't be nested--it makes the line more readable, since you clearly see the command's start/end.