bug#55937: [PATCH] touch: create parent directories if needed

2022-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
On 6/14/22 19:20, Alan Rosenthal wrote: `touch -p a/b/c/d/e` will now be the same as running: `mkdir -p a/b/c/d && touch a/b/c/d/e`. I don't see how this useful enough to merit a change, since one can achieve the effect of the proposed "touch -p" with the already-existing "mkdir -p" followed

bug#55937: [PATCH] touch: create parent directories if needed

2022-06-14 Thread Alan Rosenthal
`touch -p a/b/c/d/e` will now be the same as running: `mkdir -p a/b/c/d && touch a/b/c/d/e`. Added an option -p/--create-dirs to create any required directories. Default behavior remains the same. --- src/touch.c | 40 +++- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 d