You may want to use mkdir -p or pipe the output of mkdir into /dev/null. Otherwise users may receive additional error messages. Avoiding error messages will give users of your script one less thing to worry about. For example:
mkdir /home/$USER/.config/autostart
is very likely to give you an error like
mkdir: cannot create directory
since the autostart directory is already existent on most machines.
NicoVarg99
commented
8 years ago
You may want to use mkdir -p or pipe the output of mkdir into /dev/null. Otherwise users may receive additional error messages. Avoiding error messages will give users of your script one less thing to worry about. For example:
mkdir /home/$USER/.config/autostartis very likely to give you an error like
mkdir: cannot create directorysince the autostart directory is already existent on most machines.