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Re: Paths and Cygwin


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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!

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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