X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Looking for mkdirhier ! In-Reply-To: <013401c6c60f$44ed2880$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <013401c6c60f$44ed2880$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, 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... > > Yep. Or in your global /etc/profile or whereever. > > > 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. And wrapped in an exec, both to propagate the exit code, and to avoid having an extra bash process hanging around, i.e., exec mkdir -p "$@" :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/