Unix - create path of folders and file

Question

I know you can do mkdir to create a directory and touch to create a file, but is there no way to do both operations in one go?

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Answer 1

as I saw and test in a unix forum this solves the problem

ptouch() {
    for p in "$@"; do
        _dir="$(dirname -- "$p")"
        [ -d "$_dir" ] || mkdir -p -- "$_dir"
    touch -- "$p"
    done
}