For a more simple solution, you may want to look at the mkpath function exported from the File::Path module that is part of the core installation. Alternatively, if you are looking at writing your own function for educational purposes, you might want to look at this thread where I contributed (based on an earlier post from mirod) a more portable solution using File::Spec using a loop over the path components rather than employing recursion (Recursion makes it very easy to write bad code - Whenever I see recursive code my first urge is to refactor immediately :-).

The code ...

sub create_dirs {
    use File::Spec;
    my $file = shift;
    my $dir;
    foreach ( File::Spec->splitdir( (File::Spec->splitpath( $file ))[1
+] ) ) {
        $dir = File::Spec->catdir($dir, $_);
        next if -d $dir;
        mkdir( $dir ) || die $!;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: How do I recursively create a directory tree/filesystem? by rob_au
in thread How do I recursively create a directory tree/filesystem? by fensterblick

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