20 Jan
2017
20 Jan
'17
3:23 p.m.
Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
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.
This is why I call Linux a system that tries to establich a vendor lock in.
Man pages could have been written in a way that makes it obvious that --parents
is non-portable, but they rather encourage people to learn gnu long options.
Jörg
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