#!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: mkdirhier.sh,v 1.6 91/08/13 18:13:04 rws Exp $ # Courtesy of Paul Eggert newline=' ' IFS=$newline case ${1--} in -*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: usage: mkdirhier directory ..."; exit 1 esac status= for directory do case $directory in '') echo >&2 "mkdirhier: empty directory name" status=1 continue;; *"$newline"*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: directory name contains a newline: \`\`$directory''" status=1 continue;; ///*) prefix=/;; # See Posix 2.3 "path". //*) prefix=//;; /*) prefix=/;; -*) prefix=./;; *) prefix= esac IFS=/ set x $directory IFS=$newline shift for filename do path=$prefix$filename prefix=$path/ shift test -d "$path" || { paths=$path for filename do if [ "$filename" != "." ]; then path=$path/$filename paths=$paths$newline$path fi done mkdir $paths || status=$? break } done done exit $status