I am a recent convert to File::Path, especially on Windows. Unfortunately the Explorer process quite often hangs on my box, due to the excessive stuff it does under the hood. Using mkpath, Perl does it all quickly with no fuss.

The added benefit is that you can call mkpath as:

mkpath('c:\blah/blah/blah.pl');
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and it will just do the right thing. Nice :)

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