From a513e2767e846cb2ccbdc486633a104d9d08360c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Massimo Prencipe <mprencipe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:01:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Create output directory recursively instead of silently
 failing to produce output (#413)

* Fix: Create output directory recursively instead of silently failing to write output. Fixes issue #395.

* Update changelog, contributors
---
 CHANGELOG.md         | 1 +
 CONTRIBUTORS.md      | 1 +
 pkg/output/stdout.go | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 063d7c7..ef8b8cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     user to change filters, manage recursion queue, save snapshot of matches to a file etc.
   - Changed
     - Fix a badchar in progress output
+    - Fixed output writing so it doesn't silently fail if it needs to create directories recursively
   
 - v1.2.1
   - Changed
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 2bdd441..641db38 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 * [jvesiluoma](https://github.com/jvesiluoma)
 * [Kiblyn11](https://github.com/Kiblyn11)
 * [lc](https://github.com/lc)
+* [mprencipe](https://github.com/mprencipe)
 * [nnwakelam](https://twitter.com/nnwakelam)
 * [noraj](https://pwn.by/noraj)
 * [oh6hay](https://github.com/oh6hay)
diff --git a/pkg/output/stdout.go b/pkg/output/stdout.go
index b68cedd..1b72092 100644
--- a/pkg/output/stdout.go
+++ b/pkg/output/stdout.go
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ func (s *Stdoutput) writeResultToFile(resp ffuf.Response) string {
 	var fileContent, fileName, filePath string
 	// Create directory if needed
 	if s.config.OutputDirectory != "" {
-		err := os.Mkdir(s.config.OutputDirectory, 0750)
+		err := os.MkdirAll(s.config.OutputDirectory, 0750)
 		if err != nil {
 			if !os.IsExist(err) {
 				s.Error(err.Error())