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Creating new directories
Post 303013219 by kristinu on Saturday 17th of February 2018 06:31:07 PM
02-17-2018
No problem
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I don't really follow you. Nothing will be lost with 'mkdir', despite your earlier assertion that "I think that `mkdir -p` overwrites the directories. I want to avoid that". mkdir doesn't do anything except make directiories. It doesn't delete anything.
It's a Unix thing - 'do one thing, and do it well'
It's a Unix thing - 'do one thing, and do it well'
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
gnomevfs-mkdir
gnomevfs-mkdir(1) User Commands gnomevfs-mkdir(1) NAME
gnomevfs-mkdir - make a new directory at a VFS location SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-mkdir URI DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-mkdir makes a new directory at a URI location that supports the creation of new directories. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the location of the new directory in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Making a New Directory in the Home Directory example% gnomevfs-mkdir file:///home/user/newdir ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnomevfs-mkdir Executable to make a new directory at a VFS location ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-mkdir(1)