On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, at 06:24, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Nick Downing <downing.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
right... but nevertheless I found it much less
useable and I felt a
lot of the tools had rough edges, as well as changing "mkdir
--parents" into "mkdir -p" you had to account for different behaviour
which was in most cases more naive.
mkdir introduced the -p option with SunOS-4.0 (Spring 1988).
This is long before gmkdir apeared....you need to correct your standoint.
I think his assertion is that he personally had originally learned the
command as "mkdir --parents" [which was and is GNU-only], and had to
change to spelling it "-p" when going to non-linux systems, along with
some unspecified behavior differences.