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RE: Looking for mkdirhier !
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:38:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Looking for mkdirhier !
- References: <013401c6c60f$44ed2880$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 22 August 2006 16:57, mwoehlke wrote:
>
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote:
> >>
> >>> How could I install mkdir in cygwin ?
> >>
> >> dk@rainbow /tmp> alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p'
> >
> > ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script is...
>
> Yep. Or in your global /etc/profile or whereever.
>
> > Better:
> >
> > $ cat > /bin/mkdirhier
> >>
> > mkdir -p "$@"
> > ^D
> > $ chmod +x /bin/mkdirhier
> >
> > (Note: ^D above means hold 'ctrl' and press 'D')
>
> Would be even better if you put a shebang on the first line, in case it's
> invoked from a non-bash shell.
And wrapped in an exec, both to propagate the exit code, and to avoid
having an extra bash process hanging around, i.e.,
exec mkdir -p "$@"
:-)
Igor
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