On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 02:12:35PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/19/2017 05:22 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> > dir="$1"
> > mkdir -p "$dir"
> > cd "$dir" <------ never executes
> I'm not sure why this doesn't work but you're doing it the hard way.
>
> mkdir -p $1
> cd $1
>
> is much simpler, and might work better.
Unless $1 contains any spaces, in which case the mkdir will create two or
more directories; e.g.:
$ p="a b"
$ mkdir $p
$ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x. 2 davem davem 4096 Feb 20 09:07 a
drwxrwxr-x. 2 davem davem 4096 Feb 20 09:07 b
$
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