/usr/bin/mkdirhier is in xutils-dev 1:7.7+5ubuntu1.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 | #!/bin/sh
# Courtesy of Paul Eggert
newline='
'
IFS=$newline
case ${1--} in
-*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: usage: mkdirhier directory ..."; exit 1
esac
status=
for directory
do
case $directory in
'')
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: empty directory name"
status=1
continue;;
*"$newline"*)
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: directory name contains a newline: \`\`$directory''"
status=1
continue;;
-*) prefix=./;;
*) prefix=
esac
mkdir -p $prefix$directory || status=$?
done
exit $status
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