On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, pdi wrote: > **''$ [[ -d $HOME/.vim/syntax ]] || mkdir -p $HOME/.vim/syntax''** FYI, if you're using -p with mkdir, you don't need to put a 'does it already exist' test around it. mkdir -p will not produce an error even if the directory you tell it to create already exists. HTH :) Darren.