Subject: bug#31912: Question for David MacKenzie - why an mkdir has no silent mode (-f key) like a chmod?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:23:32 -0700

On 06/20/2018 04:18 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
> A simple question for David MacKenzie - why an mkdir has no silent mode (-f key) like a chmod?

David MacKenzie left the building long ago.

It sounds like you're looking for 'mkdir -p'. If not, you can just 
ignore mkdir's exit status and discard its stderr output.