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Hi, I have a copy statement that needs to execute from a shell script. A sample statement is given below. cp /data/a/le/lecfil.dbd /bkup2/incr/a/le/lecfil.dbd The problem is the directory /bkup2/incr/a/le doesn't exist though /bkup2/incr exists. I want my cp command to create the directory if necessary and copy the file to destination. Can some one help? Thanks, Balaji.

Name: James Boothe
Date: February 6, 2008 at 12:14:40 Pacific

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Prior to the copy command, you can do a mkdir command to create any missing directories (assuming you have write permissions on the directories): mkdir -p /bkup2/incr/a/le And if your destination fullpath name is in a variable such as $filename, you could do: mkdir -p $(dirname $filename)

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