fix: properly create outpur dir if needed (#1377)

Signed-off-by: Jan Kowalleck <[email protected]>

Author: jkowalleck

HISTORY.md

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 <!-- unreleased changes go here -->
 
+* Fixed
+  * Create output dir properly if needed (via [#1377])
+
+[#1377]: https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-node-npm/pull/1377
+
 ## 4.1.0 - 2025-10-29
 
 * Added

src/cli.ts

@@ -387,18 +387,20 @@ export async function run(process_: NodeJS.Process): Promise<number> {
       }
     }
   }
-  const directory = dirname(options.outputFile)
-  if (!existsSync(directory)) {
-    myConsole.info('INFO  | creating directory', directory)
-    mkdirSync(directory, {recursive: true})
+
+  let outputFD: number = process_.stdout.fd
+  if (options.outputFile !== OutputStdOut) {
+    const outputFPn = resolve(process_.cwd(), options.outputFile)
+    myConsole.debug('DEBUG | outputFPn:', outputFPn)
+    const outputFDir = dirname(outputFPn)
+    if (!existsSync(outputFDir)) {
+      myConsole.info('INFO  | creating directory', outputFDir)
+      mkdirSync(outputFDir, {recursive: true})
+    }
+    outputFD = openSync(outputFPn, 'w')
   }
-  myConsole.log('LOG   | writing BOM to', options.outputFile)
-  const written = await writeAllSync(
-    options.outputFile === OutputStdOut
-      ? process_.stdout.fd
-      : openSync(resolve(process_.cwd(), options.outputFile), 'w'),
-    serialized
-  )
+  myConsole.log('LOG   | writing BOM to: %s', options.outputFile)
+  const written = await writeAllSync(outputFD, serialized)
   myConsole.info('INFO  | wrote %d bytes to %s', written, options.outputFile)
 
   return written > 0