[Pdx-pm] mkdir -p ?
Bruce J Keeler
bruce at drangle.com
Wed Aug 22 11:52:43 PDT 2007
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
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