X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Looking for mkdirhier ! Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:32:45 -0500 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <013401c6c60f$44ed2880$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <013401c6c60f$44ed2880$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > On 22 August 2006 16:57, mwoehlke wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote: >>>> How could I install mkdir in cygwin ? >>> dk@rainbow /tmp> alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p' >> ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script is... >> Better: >> >> $ cat > /bin/mkdirhier >> mkdir -p "$@" >> ^D >> $ chmod +x /bin/mkdirhier >> >> (Note: ^D above means hold 'ctrl' and press 'D') > > Would be even better if you put a shebang on the first line, in case it's > invoked from a non-bash shell. Actually, I intentionally did not use a shebang... 'mkdir -p "$@"' should work on any Bourne-like shell, although in this case '#!/bin/sh' should suffice. I'm used to writing portable scripts; anything other than '#!/bin/sh' is very non-portable, and if the script needs to be run on Bourne+ (i.e. bash or ksh), then the only options are a: try to write a wrapper that invokes the script in bash/ksh as a here-doc (or something equally ugly), or b: don't use a shebang. I generally pick the latter. -- Matthew '$ time make world' -> real 5d:14h:37m:5.291s user 0m:0.000s sys 4d:2h:14m:43.712s -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/