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#!/bin/sh
# ===================
# touchp -- For Jason
# ===================
# Copyright © 2013 Ryan McGowan <ryan@ryanmcg.com>
# This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
# terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
# as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.
# Because why not...
set -e
# Get the last argument
for last; do true; done
# Use the last argument for the call to mkdir. This means that this is not
# fully compatible with touch since it only works with one path (or at least it
# only creates the directory if it does not already exist for the first path
# only).
mkdir -p $(dirname $last)
# Forward all arguments to touch.
touch $@
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