<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Simon Tatham wrote</title><author_name>Simon Tatham (npub1r8…89e8g)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1r80xhdf7fpspq6m6jtjhl0kpemmyy9jv86lqcaht32eccfe8vuhsg89e8g</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>&#39;mkdir -p&#39; 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 &#39;a&#39; doesn&#39;t exist, it&#39;ll make that, then a/b, etc.&#xA;&#xA;But you can also get it to make multiple _non_-nested directories, because it accepts &#39;..&#39; in the path and doesn&#39;t treat it specially:&#xA;&#xA;$ mkdir -p alpha/../beta/../gamma&#xA;$ ls&#xA;alpha  beta  gamma&#xA;$</html></oembed>