[Pdx-pm] mkdir -p ?

Ingy dot Net ingy at ingy.net
Wed Aug 22 14:57:59 PDT 2007


On 22/08/07 11:47 -0700, 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". 

Just fyi, IO::All has an assert method.

    io('path/to/some/place/maybe/not/there')->assert->print("something");

-Ingy

> 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
> 
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