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?

i.e. if I wa

Answer 1

In the special (but not uncommon) case where you are trying to recreate the same directory hierarchy, cp --parents can be useful.

For example if /my/long contains the source files, and my/other already exists, you can do this:

cd /my/long
cp --parents path/here/thing.txt /my/other