Create multiple parent directories with mkdir
You have a directory /home/mydir
and you want to create two new directories like this: /home/mydir/backup/something
When you run mkdir /home/mydir/backup/something
you will get an error:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/mydir/backup/something’: No such file or directory
Normally, you would have to make both directories separately like mkdir /home/mydir/backup /home/mydir/backup/something
Add the -p
flag (make parent directories along the way if needed) to fix it:
mkdir -p /home/mydir/backup/something
mkdir created both backup
and something
directory in the same path
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