Can I recursively create files on Bash?

Question

If I run touch non/existing/folder/my-file.txt, touch complains about non-existing folders.

Can I create these folders on the same command, similar to mkdir -p?

Answer 1

No, but you can write a script that does that:

# new.sh
for file; do
  [[ $file =~ ((.+\/)*)(.+) ]] && mkdir -p "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
  touch $file
done

Then run: ./new.sh non/existing/folder/my-file.txt possibly/other/files.txt