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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mkdir bug Post 302474537 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 24th of November 2010 01:18:19 PM
Old 11-24-2010
Yes i guess it is not a bug, it is an attended behaviour.
By the way... if you use to create directory as a flag or for lock operation in order to avoid using noclobber stuff, you are right to point out that the -p option does not preserve the atomicity of the mkdir command (or can not be threated as is).

And... as already stated by the previous comments of other dudes, you are missing a dot :
Code:
if [ -d ./backup ]

or better
Code:
if [ -d /home/yannick/backup ]
then
    ...
else
   mkdir -p /home/yannick/backup
   ...
fi

Last edited by ctsgnb; 11-24-2010 at 02:34 PM..
 

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