Re: mkdir and nested folders.

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 18/12/12 08:28, Andreas Weber wrote:
> On 18.12.2012 07:47, Laurent Hoeltgen wrote:
> > The following works in Matlab R2012a on Xubunu 12.04:
> > mkdir('foo/bar/baz')
> > when the folders foo and bar don't exist. They are simply created
> > then, too. However on octave (3.6.2) it doesn't. Status is 0.
>
> Hi Laurent,
> I think this is related to
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-06/msg00034.html
> octave uses gnulib::mkdir. There is also a gnulib::mkdir-p but as you
> see in the link above this made some problems compiling with MinGW.
>
> > Is there any way to get the same behaviour in octave as in matlab?
> You can do 'system("mkdir -p foo/bar/baz")' but this isn't platform
> independent.
>
> Regards, Andy
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Hi,

for the time being, I think I can live with

system("mkdir -p foo/bar/baz"),

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Laurent