-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Peshansky on 2/9/2006 8:51 AM: > >>Input: ./mkdirhier.sh "/home/jgriffin/test/level1/level2" >& out.txt >>[snip] >>Here's the output: >>prefix: / >>mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such file or directory > > > None of the above is Cygwin-specific, BTW -- except for the fact that > Linux will treat a leading "//" as a "/" (masking the bug), and Cygwin > interprets it as a network share prefix (also, filenames with spaces are a > bit more common on Cygwin).
Furthermore, what's wrong with 'mkdir -p "/home/jgriffin/test/level1/level2'? Let the standardized coreutil do all the work for you, in just one process, rather than invoking the several processes of your expensive shell script! - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD8zHZ84KuGfSFAYARAp2QAJ4tA4yAFaGk4fvVNfOMxsCJmsKgIwCdGaJw 52oB0EQfZZwJyYPz83oTrSw= =B0/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/