[Pdx-pm] mkdir -p ?

[Bruce J Keeler]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The dirvish backup script (written in Perl) does a mkdir to make the
> directory where new backups go.  One of the users makes many backups
> per day, and would like to organize those into subtrees.   This
> would be easy if Perl had the equivalent of "mkdir -p ARG" rather
> than just "mkdir ARG". 
>
> I can think of many ways to fake "mkdir -p" (recursive, system call,
> etc.) but there is probably an elegant way to do it.  Suggestions?
>
> Keith
>
>   
Check out mkpath in File::Path.

Bruce