diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
index dd84f7fe75..17ade5eeb8 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ class Pathname
       opoo "tried to write exec scripts to #{self} for an empty list of targets"
       return
     end
+    mkpath
     targets.each do |target|
       target = Pathname.new(target) # allow pathnames or strings
       (self+target.basename()).write <<-EOS.undent