util/mkdir-p.pl

   1 #!/usr/local/bin/perl
   2
   3 # mkdir-p.pl
   4
   5 # On some systems, the -p option to mkdir (= also create any missing parent
   6 # directories) is not available.
   7
   8 my $arg;
   9
  10 foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
  11   &do_mkdir_p($arg);
  12 }
  13
  14
  15 sub do_mkdir_p {
  16   local($dir) = @_;
  17
  18   $dir =~ s|/*$||;
  19
  20   if (-d $dir) {
  21     return;
  22   }
  23
  24   if ($dir =~ /\//) {
  25     local($parent) = $dir;
  26     $parent =~ s|[^/]*$||;
  27
  28     do_mkdir_p($parent);
  29   }
  30
  31   mkdir($dir, 0777) || die "Cannot create directory $dir: $!\n";
  32   print "created directory $dir\n";
  33 }