Re: Looking for mkdirhier !

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

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...
> > 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.

Actually, I intentionally did not use a shebang... 'mkdir -p "$@"' 
should work on any Bourne-like shell, although in this case '#!/bin/sh' 
should suffice.

I'm used to writing portable scripts; anything other than '#!/bin/sh' is 
very non-portable, and if the script needs to be run on Bourne+ (i.e. 
bash or ksh), then the only options are a: try to write a wrapper that 
invokes the script in bash/ksh as a here-doc (or something equally 
ugly), or b: don't use a shebang. I generally pick the latter.

--
Matthew
'$ time make world' -> real 5d:14h:37m:5.291s  user 0m:0.000s  sys 
4d:2h:14m:43.712s


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