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

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: <bgv.hce <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 31912-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bgv.hce <at> gmail.com, 31912-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31912: Question for David MacKenzie - why an mkdir has no
 silent mode (-f key) like a chmod?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:23:32 -0700

On 06/20/2018 04:18 AM, bgv.hce <at> gmail.com 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.
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