I love "mkdir -p", it is one of my favorite linux commands but, one thing that I wish, was there was a "-p" equivalent for "touch"
@mcc This inspired me to write and test a somewhat robust shellscript function for inclusion in ~/.shrc or ~/.bashrc:
touchp() { for file in "$@"; do mkdir -p "$( dirname "$file" )" && touch "$file"; done; }
@arielmt @mcc as a point of note, i think this makes much more sense to be written as
touchp() { for file; do mkdir -p "$(dirname "$file")" && >> "$file"; done; }
(a) in "$@" is extraneous
(b) so is touch. unless of course you are actually using touch for touching instead of just making files, but seeing as it's most likely a fresh directory, that's unlikely
@nabijaczleweli @mcc For (a): Today I learned. Thank you. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04
