Re: How do I create directories on a Unix box with Perl

[drieux]

On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 06:53 , Mark Underwood wrote:
[..]
> For example if my cgi-bin directory is usr\home\myaccount\cgi-bin I can
> create a new directory under cgi bin as  usr\home\myaccount\cgi-bin\NEWDIR
> using the following code in the Perl script that runs in the cgi-bin
> directory:
>
> $fileDir = 'NEWDIR';
> mkdir($fileDir,'777');
>
> ...but I want to create:
>
> usr\home\myaccount\NEWDIR_1\NEWDIR_2\NEWDIR_3 etc etc.

what you are looking for is

        perldoc File::Path

and in particular the

        mkpath

function. An illustration of it's use is shown in:

        http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/misc/linkToNowhere.txt

ciao
drieux

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