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feature request: mv -p to create missing target dir

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rodolfo Borges <rodolfo.borges <at> gmail.com>, bob <at> proulx.com
Subject: bug#5926: feature request: mv -p to create missing target dir
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:00:24 +0200

Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Just a few obsevations on side issues...
>
> Bob Proulx writes:
>> Rodolfo Borges wrote:
>>
>> > cat <<EOF >> ~/.bashrc
>> > function mv() {
>> >     local target="${!#}"
>> >     local dir
>> >     if [[ "$target" =~ '/$' ]]; then
>> >         dir="$target"
>> >     else
>> >         dir="$(dirname "$target")"
>> >     fi
>> >     test -d "$dir" || mkdir -vp "$dir"
>> >     $(which mv) "$@"
>> > }
>> > EOF
>> 
>> Very good!  I see that you have a solution to your problem.
>> 
>> As a side comment I don't see the point of:
>> >     $(which mv) "$@"
> I think that's needed because otherwise the shell function would end 
> up calling itself recursively, since it's named `mv' too.

You use "command mv" for that.

Andreas.

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