mkdirhier fails on Ubuntu Hardy i686 with dash shell

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sun Oct 25 15:34:47 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:49:44PM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>
> Replacing the contents of mkdirhier and mkdirhier.sh with "mkdir -p $*" 
> works-around the problem.

Does anyone know why we don't just call "mkdir -p" normally? Are there
portability problems with it?


Thanks
Ian



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