Solution: Make a directory

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Code

mkdir 'reports';
spurt 'reports/data.txt', 'x';

say 'reports'.IO.d;
say 'reports/data.txt'.IO.e;

🦋 You can find the source code in the file make-a-directory.raku.

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mkdir creates the directory, and .IO.d confirms that reports is a directory.
Because the directory now exists, we can write a file into it by giving a path that includes the directory name, reports/data.txt. Checking .e on that path confirms the file was created inside the new directory.
The order matters: spurt does not create missing directories for you. Writing to reports/data.txt before the reports directory exists fails with an error like Failed to open file … : No such file or directory. Making the directory first — as mkdir does here — is what lets the write succeed. Conveniently, mkdir also creates any missing intermediate directories, so a nested path such as mkdir 'reports/2026' builds the whole chain in a single call.