working with directories

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

got a couple questions for ya

is there a way... w/ the mkdir function in perl, that I can tell perl I want to create any parent directories, if needed... so like i don't already have /blah.. and i want to create /blah/blah... it won't do it by default

another thing, say I try to make a directory that is already there.. will that hurt anything? and if so, how do i find out if the directory is already there before I make it?

thanks monks

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Re: working with directories by japhy (Canon) on May 25, 2001 at 22:25 UTC
You want to use `File::Path`'s `mkpath()` function. `japhy` -- Perl and Regex Hacker	[reply]
Re: working with directories by runrig (Abbot) on May 25, 2001 at 22:25 UTC
File::Path	[reply]
Re: working with directories by arturo (Vicar) on May 25, 2001 at 22:36 UTC
See also the vast range of file test operators Perl provides you with: `perldoc -f -X` or see the online version on this site here. `perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); +$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; other_name = rose; print "$oth +er_name\n"'` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]