Bloodelf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm writing a script, which will be used to check and update a number of files/directories on a remote NT machine. It needs to be able to anticipate the possibility that a completely new set of sub directories may need to be created. The problem is that mkdir only appears to work if the directory above the one I wish to make exists.
E.g.
mkdir ("c:/test/test2/test3") works if c:/test/test2/ exists. However, if the sub directory "test2/" does not exist, then it fails.
Is there a way to get around this, without having to check that all the sub directories are present and if necessary make them one by one???
Many thanks...

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(jeffa) Re: Problems with mkdir
by jeffa (Bishop) on Dec 08, 2001 at 23:06 UTC
    Try File::Path: 
    use File::Path;

mkpath('foo/bar/baz/qux') or die;

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