Re: mkdir -p

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 14:55:36 CEST


On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:43:29AM +0100, Stephen Isard nicely wrote:
> Michele,
>
> I've noticed that the setup program contains a few calls to mkdir -p,
> which is supposed to make any missing parent directories of the
> directory it has been told to create, and not give an error if the
> directory is already there. However, on my 11r2 and 12r2 installations,
> mkdir is linked to busybox, which doesn't know about the '-p' flag.

I tested again: busybox mkdir know about -p flag. True, the "mkdir -h"
doesn't advice about the -p, but it works.

Michele

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