On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:07:19PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> I also need a simple bash script that creates a directory if it doesn't exist
>
> if directory/path does not exist
> then mkdir directory/path
> endif
[ -a $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir
-a tests that nothing called `$dir' exists (file, directory, symlink,
etc). mkdir -p creates a directory and and intermediate directories
needed. So, if `a' exists but `b' doesn't, `mkdir a/b/c' will fail but
`mkdir -p a/b/c' will create both `b' and `c'.
Cheers,
John
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