Nick Downing <downing.nick at gmail.com> wrote:

> right... but nevertheless I found it much less useable and I felt a
> lot of the tools had rough edges, as well as changing "mkdir
> --parents" into "mkdir -p" you had to account for different behaviour
> which was in most cases more naive.

mkdir introduced the -p option with SunOS-4.0 (Spring 1988).
This is long before gmkdir apeared....you need to correct your standoint.

Jörg

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