From: Josh Huber <huber@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T10:05:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: ruby vs. ksh

Philip Mak <pmak@animeglobe.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:10:35AM +0900, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
>> # 2)
>> 
>> 'foo/bar'.split('/').each do |dir|
>>   Dir::mkdir(dir)
>> end
>
> Isn't that going to do this:
>
> mkdir foo
> mkdir bar
>
> instead of this:
>
> mkdir foo
> mkdir foo/bar

Yep, how about:

tmp = ""
'foo/bar/baz'.split('/').each do |subdir|
        tmp << subdir + "/"
        Dir::mkdir(tmp)
end

But, yeah...using mkpath is probably the way to go, since it probably
handles much more error cases.

-- 
Josh Huber