Re: add create dir on touch

[Matthew Woehlke]

KE Liew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would be good to have an option to create a directory when using touch.
>
> Rather than mkdir -P /path/to/wherever && touch /path/to/wherever/filename
> It's nicer to have touch -P /path/to/wherever/filename

(in .bash_profile)
touch() {
  if [ $# -ne 1 ] || [ "${1:0:1}" = "-" ] ; then
    command touch "$@" # assume you know what you are doing
  else
    local d="${1%/*}"
    [ "$d" != "$1" ] && mkdir -p "$d"
    touch "$1"
  fi
}

...or you could re-write it to only do the 'special' logic if $1==-p && 
$# -eq 2

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Matthew
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