Make Various Directories Recursively (in English)

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Make various directories recursively

Nuno Rocha, May 2009

Simplify the creation of various directories inside one another, in one command. You can do it like this:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
/test $ mkdir maria
/test $ cd maria
/test/maria $ mkdir manuel
/test/maria $ cd manuel
/test/maria/manuel $

Or, you can do it with the -p option:

 
$ mkdir -p test/maria/manuel