From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T16:31:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: ruby vs. ksh

Philip Mak graced us by uttering:
> 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

*smack!*  Of course!  I apologize.  I didn't think it through.

>> # 3)
>> require "ftools"            # standard library
>> File::mkpath('foo/bar')
> 
> This seems like the cleanest way to do it.

This was, of course, my personal favorite.  I tend to show people the
hard way before showing them the simpler way... just like my Calc prof
used to.

Again, my apologies.  Use File::mkpath()

Tim Hammerquist
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