Make the path and a file at once!

touchp

#!/bin/sh
# ===================
# touchp -- For Jason
# ===================

# Copyright © 2013 Ryan McGowan <[email protected]>
# This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
# terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
# as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.

# Because why not...
set -e

# Get the last argument
for last; do true; done

# Use the last argument for the call to mkdir. This means that this is not
# fully compatible with touch since it only works with one path (or at least it
# only creates the directory if it does not already exist for the first path
# only).
mkdir -p $(dirname $last)

# Forward all arguments to touch.
touch $@