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mkdir - make directories

Synopsis

mkdir [options] directory...

POSIX options: [-p] [-m mode] [--]

GNU options (shortest form): [-p] [-m mode] [--verbose] [--help] [--version] [--]

Description

mkdir creates directories with the specified names.

By default, the mode of created directories is 0777 (`a+rwx') minus the bits set in the umask.

Options

-m mode, --mode=mode

Set the mode of created directories to mode, which may be symbolic as in chmod(1) and then uses the default mode as the point of departure.

-p, --parents

Make any missing parent directories for each directory argument. The mode for parent directories is set to the umask modified by `u+wx'. Ignore arguments corresponding to existing directories. (Thus, if a directory /a exists, then `mkdir /a' is an error, but `mkdir -p /a' is not.)

--verbose

Print a message for each created directory. This is most useful with --parents.

--

Terminate option list.

GNU Standard Options

--help

Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

--version

Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully.

--

Terminate option list.

Environment

The variables LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES have the usual meaning.

Conforming to

POSIX 1003.2

Notes

This page describes mkdir as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other versions may differ slightly. Mail corrections and additions to aeb@cwi.nl. Report bugs in the program to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu.

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