Name
mkdir
Synopsis
mkdir [options
]directories
Creates one or more directories
. You must have write permission in the parent directory to create a directory. See also
rmdir
. The default mode of the new directory is 0777, modified by the system or user’s umask.
Options
- -m
Set the access
mode
for new directories. See chmod for an explanation of acceptable formats formode
.- -p
Create intervening parent directories if they don’t exist.
- -v
Verbose mode. Print directories as they’re created.
Examples
Create a read-only directory named personal:
$ mkdir -m 444 personal
The following sequence:
$mkdir work; cd work
$mkdir junk; cd junk
$mkdir questions; cd ../..
can be accomplished by typing this:
$ mkdir -p work/junk/questions
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