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Re: bug with mkdir


At 12:16 PM 1/12/2001, mark@numericalmethods.com wrote:
>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.



Hm, both of these work just fine for me.



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