From 55b52797467cc18187d02e534be4d8ee578bdda1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:09:49 +0000
Subject: Check that parent of target dir exists (and optionally force-create).

---
 savelocaltweaks | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/savelocaltweaks b/savelocaltweaks
index b1fd355..657f768 100755
--- a/savelocaltweaks
+++ b/savelocaltweaks
@@ -24,12 +24,22 @@ includefile="/etc/local/localtweaks.include"
 excludefile="/etc/local/localtweaks.exclude"
 extensions=".orig .old"
 
-if [ -n "$targetdir" ] && [ -e "$targetdir" ]; then
-	if [ "$force" = "yes" ]; then
-		rm -rf "$targetdir"
-	else
-		echo >&2 "Error: Target directory exists already."
-		exit 1
+if [ -n "$targetdir" ]; then
+	targetdirparent="$(dirname "$targetdir")"
+	if ! [ -d "$targetdirparent" ]; then
+		if [ "$force" = "yes" ]; then
+			mkdir -p "$targetdirparent"
+		else
+			echo >&2 "Error: Parent directory for target directory does not exist."
+			exit 1
+		fi
+	elif [ -e "$targetdir" ]; then
+		if [ "$force" = "yes" ]; then
+			rm -rf "$targetdir"
+		else
+			echo >&2 "Error: Target directory already exists."
+			exit 1
+		fi
 	fi
 fi
 
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