You might want to check out File::Path's mkpath function, which provides similar functionality and has the added bonus of being a core module ... so nothing extra to install. :)

  # The "mkpath" function provides a convenient way to create 
  # directories, even if your "mkdir" kernel call won't create 
  # more than one level of directory at a time.

mkpath(['/create/all/of/these', '/and/these/too'], 0, 0755);
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    --k.