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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#31912: Question for David MacKenzie - why an mkdir has no silent mode (-f key) like a chmod? |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:23:32 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 |
On 06/20/2018 04:18 AM, address@hidden wrote:
A simple question for David MacKenzie - why an mkdir has no silent mode (-f key) like a chmod?
David MacKenzie left the building long ago.It sounds like you're looking for 'mkdir -p'. If not, you can just ignore mkdir's exit status and discard its stderr output.
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