Linux: copy and create destination dir if it does not exist

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flybywire picture flybywire · Oct 7, 2009 · Viewed 354.1k times · Source

I want a command (or probably an option to cp) that creates the destination directory if it does not exist.

Example:

cp -? file /path/to/copy/file/to/is/very/deep/there

Answer

Michael Krelin - hacker picture Michael Krelin - hacker · Oct 7, 2009 
mkdir -p "$d" && cp file "$d"

(there's no such option for cp).

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