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How to force directories beeing created for my link

I have a large file with links beeing created.

f.e. 

    ln -s ../AAA2/myfile.txt ../dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/mylink.ln

unfortunately the destination directory structure is not created yet. Is there a way to force the directories (here dirX ) beeing created before the link is created?

Thanks

Solution

  • It's not ln's job to create directories; that's mkdir's job.

    dest=../dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/mylink.ln
mkdir -p "${dest%/*}"
ln -s ../AAA2/myfile.txt "$dest"