diff --git a/examples/example1_complete_report/createDocs.sh b/examples/example1_complete_report/createDocs.sh
index b6dcfb8..47f6f38 100755
--- a/examples/example1_complete_report/createDocs.sh
+++ b/examples/example1_complete_report/createDocs.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-mkdir texdoclet_output
+mkdir -p texdoclet_output
 
 rm texdoclet_output/TeXDoclet.aux
 
diff --git a/examples/example2_complete_report/createDocs.sh b/examples/example2_complete_report/createDocs.sh
index 9f8ed6f..cf287ad 100755
--- a/examples/example2_complete_report/createDocs.sh
+++ b/examples/example2_complete_report/createDocs.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # this example demonstrates the use of different .tex inlude files
 #
 
-mkdir texdoclet_output
+mkdir -p texdoclet_output
 
 rm texdoclet_output/TeXDoclet.aux
 
diff --git a/examples/example3_complete_article/createDocs.sh b/examples/example3_complete_article/createDocs.sh
index 64964df..3df7586 100755
--- a/examples/example3_complete_article/createDocs.sh
+++ b/examples/example3_complete_article/createDocs.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-mkdir texdoclet_output
+mkdir -p texdoclet_output
 
 rm texdoclet_output/TeXDoclet.aux
 
diff --git a/examples/example4_include/createDocs.sh b/examples/example4_include/createDocs.sh
index 7b44e5c..0ff453c 100755
--- a/examples/example4_include/createDocs.sh
+++ b/examples/example4_include/createDocs.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #   is included in another Latex document (MyDocument.tex) here
 #
 
-mkdir texdoclet_output
+mkdir -p texdoclet_output
 
 rm MyDocument.aux
 rm MyDocument.idx