New Folder Creation

[James Browning]

Can someone point me in the right direction to find a simple script that
will automate the creation of folders as needed?

I've looked but can't find what I need.

Pardon my ignorance,
James

[Rob Dixon]

James Browning wrote:

>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to find a simple script that
> will automate the creation of folders as needed?
>
> I've looked but can't find what I need.

Hi James.

Well, it depends on what you mean by 'as needed'. The 'mkdir'
built-in will create a directory for you.

perldoc -f mkdir

Beyond that I can't help without more details.

Cheers,

Rob

[Bob Showalter]

Browning, James wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction to find a simple script
> that will automate the creation of folders as needed?

See also the standard File::Path module.

[Drieux]

On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:46 AM, Browning, James wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction to find a simple script
> that
> will automate the creation of folders as needed?

how exactly are you defining

'as needed'???

I have a cron job that I use to traverse where
my blog has plonked stuff, and do sym-links to
the blog_archive so that they can be found by
web-bots: cf

<http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/FS/blog_archive.txt>

I run it from cron.


ciao
drieux

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[Rob Dixon]

Bob Showalter wrote:

>
> Browning, James wrote:

> > Can someone point me in the right direction to find a simple script
> > that will automate the creation of folders as needed?

>
> See also the standard File::Path module.

Of course you're probably right Bob. 'As needed' is likely
to mean the creation of an entire tree of directories. A lot
of Unix mkdir calls will do this anyway (but can this be
accessed through Perl, anybody?). But on VMS, Mac and Windows
File::Path::mkpath' does the job excellently.

This thread is the horse I'm backing :)

Rob