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Old 09-05-2009
Basic Solaris Question
In solaris, if i try to make a new file

Touch /blah/blah/cookie/file.txt

and /cookie doesnt exist will solaris be a good os and create the path for file.txt?

Or will i need to do a test loop for directory existance in my script?
# 2  
Old 09-05-2009
i think no OS will do this with the "touch" command... "mkdir -p" will create all subdirectories to the given path... but not "touch".
# 3  
Old 09-07-2009
I don't think any command will create directory structure before creating file. It can create file if not exists. You should check if the directory structure exists or not then create the file. Like
Code:
if [-d /blah/blah/cookie]
{
mkdir -p /blah/blah/cookie
touch /blah/blah/cookie/file.txt
}
else
{
touch /blah/blah/cookie/file.txt
}

# 4  
Old 09-09-2009
Thank you for your help Smilie My script is functioning properly now.
 
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