in reply to Re: Re: "not enough arguments" with 'mkdir' command
in thread "not enough arguments" with 'mkdir' command

The entire program is just one line.

Can you show us that one line then?

Does 

perl -e "mkdir q(foobar), 0777"

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work for you?

Update: Changed to include umask as jsprat's comment is correct.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: "not enough arguments" with 'mkdir' command
by nysus (Parson) on Dec 09, 2003 at 01:13 UTC
    Yeah, here's the line: 
    mkdir 'ding';

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    I also get an error with your line: 
    syntax error at ./test_file.pl line 3, near "perl -e "
Execution of ./test_file.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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