{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Simon Tatham wrote","author_name":"Simon Tatham (npub1r8…89e8g)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1r80xhdf7fpspq6m6jtjhl0kpemmyy9jv86lqcaht32eccfe8vuhsg89e8g","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"'mkdir -p' lets you make a deeply nested subdirectory like a/b/c/d, making all the intermediate directories on the way to it. So if even 'a' doesn't exist, it'll make that, then a/b, etc.\n\nBut you can also get it to make multiple _non_-nested directories, because it accepts '..' in the path and doesn't treat it specially:\n\n$ mkdir -p alpha/../beta/../gamma\n$ ls\nalpha  beta  gamma\n$"}