On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:44:23AM -0500, rgheck wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>> One other small thing. Instead of the repeated directory creation
>>> stuff, what about something like this:
>>> function mkpath {
>>> base=shift;
>>> for dir in $*; do
>>> base="$base/$dir";
>>> if test -d $base; then continue; fi
>>> mkdir $base;
>>> done
>>> }
>>> to be called as:
>>> mkpath ${HOME}/Library texmf tex latex lyx;
>>> Not tested, though.
>>>
>>
>> What is wrong about directly calling "mkdir -p" to create the deepest
>> directory and the other ones as needed?
>>
>>
> I was assuming the script was supposed to run on a very minimal shell. Is
> this always supported?
Well, your script breaks in case ${HOME} contains spaces, doesn't it?
I am not sure this outweighs the benefits of running in a possible
non-existing environmnet where "mkdir" does not handle "-p".
Andre'
