Linux: copy and create destination dir if it does not exist?

Question

I want a command (or probably an option to cp) that creates the destination directory if it does not exist. Example: cp -? file /path/to/copy/file/to/is/very/deep/there

Answer 1

You can execute mkdir command

mkdir -p /var/local/new-dir

this should work when directories parent doesn't exist, so it will be recursive

mkdir -p /var/local/parent-dir/child-dir