Re: how to use not "also" symbolic link time, but "only"

[Michael Ludwig]

Bryan Ischo schrieb am 13.04.2012 um 10:05 (-0700):

> In my particular case, I have rules for creating directories
> on-demand, and those rules were difficult to work in a way that
> didn't sometimes 'mkdir' a directory that already existed.

Not a problem using mkdir -p :

$ mkdir -p a/b/c
$ mkdir -p a/b/c
$ mkdir -p a/b/c

On Windows:

$ if not exist a\b\c md a\b\c
$ if not exist a\b\c md a\b\c
$ if not exist a\b\c md a\b\c

> It was easier to just send the mkdir output to null and never worry
> about it.

Maybe less clean, but effectively the same thing.
-- 
Michael Ludwig