So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.

After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.

Obviously I could split the path at / and iterate through each folder
name in sequence with an Exists? and mkdir follow up if needed.

Is that really the only option? To do this manually?

Just curious.

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Greg Willits wrote:
> So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
> folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
> Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
> exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
> expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.
> 
> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.
> 
> Obviously I could split the path at / and iterate through each folder
> name in sequence with an Exists? and mkdir follow up if needed.
> 
> Is that really the only option? To do this manually?


ARGH. FileUtils.mkdir_p()

(never fails to find the answer right after posting)

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On 2010-02-08, Greg Willits <lists@gregwillits.ws> wrote:
> So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
> folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
> Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
> exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
> expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.
>
> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.
>
> Obviously I could split the path at / and iterate through each folder
> name in sequence with an Exists? and mkdir follow up if needed.
>
> Is that really the only option? To do this manually?

%x{mkdir -p "#{dir}"}
?

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Greg Willits <lists@gregwillits.ws> wrote:
> So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
> folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
> Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
> exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
> expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.

Dir.mkdir emulates the unix mkdir command, which behaves this way.  It
shouldn't be surprising.

> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.

Did you try ri?

> Obviously I could split the path at / and iterate through each folder
> name in sequence with an Exists? and mkdir follow up if needed.
>
> Is that really the only option? To do this manually?

No.  Look into FileUtils, specifically FileUtils.mkdir_p

Ben

On Feb 8, 4:18=A0pm, Greg Willits <li...@gregwillits.ws> wrote:

> ARGH. FileUtils.mkdir_p()

Yea, but set $VERBOSE =3D true and watch all the pretty warnings.
Annoying.

On Feb 8, 10:11=A0pm, Greg Willits <li...@gregwillits.ws> wrote:
> So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
> folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
> Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
> exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
> expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.
>
> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.
>

require 'fileutils'

FileUtils.mkdir_p 'my/path/to/something'

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