What does the -p flag do in "mkdir -p"?

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The flag will create nested directories, but only if they don't exist already. For example, suppose you have a directory that you have write permissions for. It is also an idempotent operation, because if you run the same command over again, you will not get an error, but nothing will be created.

What does the -p flag do in "mkdir -p"?

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