Re: mv w/mkdir -p of destination

[Vito Caputo]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 11:38:34PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2020-05-11 05:16, Vito Caputo wrote:
> > Does this already exist?
> > 
> > Was just moving a .tgz into a deep path and realized I hadn't created
> > it on that host, and lamented not knowing what convenient flag I could
> > toss on the end of the typed command to make `mv` do the mkdir -p
> > first for me.
> > 
> > I was surprised to not see it in mv --help or mv(1) when I checked for
> > next time...
> 
> mv(1) is ... well, for moving files and directories.  And creating the 
> destination
> directory in the same go seems to be a seldom case.  We see also from the 
> missing
> answers so far, that nobody seems to be much excited about this feature.
> Anyway, as it's very easy to work around it with a separate mkdir(1), it's 
> better
> to avoid adding complexity to the code.
> 

Considering install(1) already establishes precedent -D as a means of
augmenting --target-directory to create parents, and both cp(1) and
mv(1) provide --target-directory, it strikes me as an existing
inconsistency to be arguably fixed on those grounds alone.

So I actually think this should extend to cp(1) as well, and -D is
available in both.

That's my $.02, maybe others will chime in this time around - it's
possible people were just busy with life, it has been kind of crazy
lately.

Thanks,
Vito Caputo