In other words, in Powershell, how to create directories recursively, and not fail if each directory level already exist ?
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The mkdir -p command does two things:
- It creates directories (and files) recursively
- It doesn't print an error if any depth of the path already exists.
To achieve this behavior for in Powershell, use:
New-Itemwhich already creates paths recursively-Forceto fail silently if paths already exist
Hence, to create C:/x/y where x and y must be directories, use:
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path C:/x/y -Force
To create C:/x/y where x is a directory and y a file, use:
New-Item -ItemType File -Path C:/x/y -Force
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