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install: [wishlist] provide an option for creating the destination dir r


From: Stefano Sabatini
Subject: install: [wishlist] provide an option for creating the destination dir recursively
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:11:47 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

The command:
install -D <source> -T <dest>

makes parent directories as needed for the destination.
For example if destination is:
/long/path/to/dest
it will create /long/path/to as with mkdir -p /long/path/to.

It would be nice to provide a similiar (symmetric) feature for the
corresponding -t command.

The corresponding syntax:
install -D <source> -t <destdir>

could create all the components of the destination dir.

For example:
install -D source -t /long/path/to/dest/dir
could create /long/path/to/dest/dir if it doesn't already exist.

Actually the user has to firstly create the destination dir with:
mkdir -p <destdir>
and then:
install -D <source> -t <destdir>

Cheers
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