[PLUG] how to adjust for special characters in mkdir() function?

[Galen Seitz]

logical american wrote:
> Ironically mkdir -p does create a full path directory with multiple 
> slashes, I am using it right now in a shell script program.  But 
> apparently mkdir() won't

As Daniel says, mkdir(2) only creates a single directory at a time. 
mkdir(2) is little more than a wrapper around the mkdir system call.
To see what a command like mkdir -p does, try something like this:

strace mkdir -p /tmp/a/b/c


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