MKDIR
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 1998
NAME
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.
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-3.16 package;
other versions may differ slightly. Mail corrections and additions to
aeb@cwi.nl and aw@mail1.bet1.puv.fi and ragnar@lightside.ddns.org .
Report bugs in the program to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu.