Here you can find the source of mkdirs(File f)
public static List<File> mkdirs(File f)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w. j a v a 2 s . c om Copyright 2009 Hauke Rehfeld This file is part of QuakeInjector. QuakeInjector is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. QuakeInjector is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with QuakeInjector. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.io.File; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class Main { /** * Like File.mkdirs() this creates all parent directories of f, but returns them in a list */ public static List<File> mkdirs(File f) { ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<File>(); if (f.isDirectory()) { files.add(f); } File parentDir = f.getParentFile(); while (parentDir != null && !parentDir.exists()) { files.add(parentDir); parentDir = parentDir.getParentFile(); } java.util.Collections.reverse(files); for (File dir : files) { System.out.println("Creating dir " + dir); dir.mkdir(); } return files; } }