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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:16:14 -0800 (PST)
From: mark AT numericalmethods DOT com
Reply-To: mark AT numericalmethods DOT com
Subject: bug with mkdir
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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I think I may have found a bug in mkdir.

When I try 

  mkdir -p <relpath>/dir

Everything works fine. However,

  mkdir -p <abspath>/dir

it does not matter if the -p is superfluous or not, the directory is
still not made.

So,

try:

  mkdir -p $HOME/test

and see if the directory exists, if not (your behaviour matches mine),
try

  mkdir $HOME/test

The behaviour I am seeing is that the latter works as expected and the
former fails.

  mkdir -p ./test1/test2/test3

works just fine, but not

  mkdir -p `pwd`/test1/test2/test3

mark.


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