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You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    mkdir -p -- "$2" &&
        cp -p -- "$1" "$2"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    mkdir -p -- "$2" &&
        cp -p -- "$1" "$2"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

An advantage of this approach is that you can have the utility to exactly what you want. This implementation requires a directory as its second argument but you could equally adapt it to expect a file pathname as the second argument. It's whatever works best for you.

You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    local src="$1" dst="$2"
    mkdir -p -- "$(dirname -- "$dst")" &&
        cp -p -- "$src" "$dst"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

Lose local and replace the {/} with (/) if you want strict POSIX compliance.

You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    mkdir -p -- "$2" &&
        cp -p -- "$1" "$2"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    local src=$1 dst=$2
    mkdir -p "$2" &&
        cp -p "$1" "$2"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

Lose local if you want strict POSIX compliance.

You can roll your own command too. Here's a function implementation but you could equally drop a variant of this into an executable script somewhere along your $PATH

mdcopy() {
    local src="$1" dst="$2"
    mkdir -p -- "$(dirname -- "$dst")" &&
        cp -p -- "$src" "$dst"
}

Usage

mdcopy /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql /a/b/d/c

Lose local and replace the {/} with (/) if you want strict POSIX compliance.