mkdir: recursive alternative?

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use mkdir to create something like:
>
> /foo/blah/bar/something
>
> However, 'foo', 'blah', and 'bar' are not guaranteed to exist, so I
> need mkdir to recursively create the directories that are not there.
> Is there a way to do this? I did a lot of searching on google but I
> came up with nothing. Thanks.


if the path is known, something like
for $word in foo blah bar something
do
if [! -d $word]
   mkdir $word
fi
done

(simple bash script)
Jack


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