Mkdir Meets Its Own Purpose

Description

A black-background meme shows terminal output at the top: "root@server ~# mkdir /new/directory" followed by "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/new/directory’: No such file or directory". Below the terminal text is an image of Obi-Wan Kenobi with the caption "That's.. why i'm here". The joke points at the slightly absurd error message from `mkdir` when intermediate parent directories do not exist, where the missing `-p` flag is the real technical detail.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick `mkdir` without `-p` is the coworker who agrees to build the penthouse, then refuses because nobody poured the lobby.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

`mkdir` without `-p` is the coworker who agrees to build the penthouse, then refuses because nobody poured the lobby.
@a_desant 5y

Working from root Nice
1. @Ra_zor 5y
  
  mkdir is some serious stuff, ya know
Deleted Account 5y

Of course! You can easily make a destructive typo like this: mkdir /new/folder && rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Deleted Account 5y

I chose that one expressly
Deleted Account 5y

i ran it
@f_i_v3 5y

run with -p tag and everything will work
Deleted Account 5y

i gotta p