From: Joe Wreschnig <piman@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T10:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: ruby vs. ksh

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 19:10, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> David Douthitt graced us by uttering:
> > PS: How do I do mkdir -p in ruby?
> # 2)
> 
> 'foo/bar'.split('/').each do |dir|
>   Dir::mkdir(dir)
> end

Try

d = Dir::getwd
'foo/bar'.split('/').each do |dir|
  Dir.mkdir(dir)
  Dir.chdir(dir)
end
Dir.chdir(d)

Your version will create each directory in the current working
directory. Alternately, you could keep a string and use s += "/#{dir}".
--
Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>