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The second one would create the directory, if it didn't exist at first. Then it's not idempotent.

Shihe Zhang
– Shihe Zhang

2019-03-06 06:47:44 +00:00
Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 6:47
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👆👆👆. The 2nd one seems dangerous. Since it creates the directory, it's not even true anymore that the dir is not present.

Chris
– Chris

2020-02-07 21:38:28 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2020 at 21:38
mkdir will also not create the full path (without a param), but the opposite would be even more dangerous, as you are not even able to revert (rm -f) the changes as you don't know which directories it created

venimus
– venimus

2021-03-23 23:19:58 +00:00
Commented Mar 23, 2021 at 23:19

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