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Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:22:04 -0400
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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: mkdir -p and network drives
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According to the Cygwin Faq,

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Why doesn't `mkdir -p' work on a network share?
Unfortunately, you cannot do something like this: 

bash$ mkdir -p //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir
mkdir: cannot create directory `//MACHINE': No such file or directory

This is because mkdir checks for the existence of each directory on the path,
creating them as necessary. Since `//MACHINE' is not a directory (you can't cd
to it either), mkdir tries to create it, and fails. 
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This behavior would be fine with me, but the latest mkdir (GNU coreutils)
5.3.0
creates /MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir and returns 0

Pierre




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