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Move the node Relative Files before Directory Names. Show what file-name-nondirectory returns when given a directory name. Explain that abbreviate-file-name works on file names too. Explain how to combine a directory name with a relative file name with concat, and the pitfalls. Update some details.

#! /bin/sh
# mkinstalldirs --- make directory hierarchy
# Author: Noah Friedman <[e-mail]>
# Created: 1993-05-16
# Public domain

# $Id: mkinstalldirs,v 1.10 1996/05/03 07:37:52 friedman Exp $

errstatus=0

for file
do
   set fnord `echo ":$file" | sed -ne 's/^:\//#/;s/^://;s/\// /g;s/^#/\//;p'`
   shift

   pathcomp=
   for d
   do
     pathcomp="$pathcomp$d"
     case "$pathcomp" in
       -* ) pathcomp=./$pathcomp ;;
     esac

     if test ! -d "$pathcomp"; then
        echo "mkdir $pathcomp" 1>&2

        mkdir "$pathcomp" || lasterr=$?

        if test ! -d "$pathcomp"; then
  	  errstatus=$lasterr
        fi
     fi

     pathcomp="$pathcomp/"
   done
done

exit $errstatus

# mkinstalldirs ends here