#!/usr/local/bin/perl # mkdir-p.pl # On some systems, the -p option to mkdir (= also create any missing parent # directories) is not available. my $arg; foreach $arg (@ARGV) { $arg =~ tr|\\|/|; &do_mkdir_p($arg); } sub do_mkdir_p { local($dir) = @_; $dir =~ s|/*\Z(?!\n)||s; if (-d $dir) { return; } if ($dir =~ m|[^/]/|s) { local($parent) = $dir; $parent =~ s|[^/]*\Z(?!\n)||s; do_mkdir_p($parent); } mkdir($dir, 0777) || die "Cannot create directory $dir: $!\n"; print "created directory `$dir'\n"; }