It's a very bad habit to use -p for every invocation of mkdir, and it's not appropriate in any of the examples where it's used. For one thing, it will never com

It's a very bad habit to use -p for every invocation of mkdir, and it's not appropriate in any of the examples where it's used. For one thing, it will never complain if you get the path wrong (provided you have the necessary permissions) which is particularly undesirable when doing remote work.