mkdir(1) | make directories |
mkdir, mkdirat(2) | make a directory file |
MKDIR(1) | General Commands Manual | MKDIR(1) |
mkdir
— make
directories
mkdir |
[-p ] [-m
mode] directory ... |
The mkdir
utility creates the directories
named as operands, in the order specified, using mode
rwxrwxrwx (0777)
as modified by the current
umask(2).
The options are as follows:
-m
mode+
’ and
‘-
’ are interpreted relative to an
initial mode of “a=rwx”.-p
rwxrwxrwx (0777)
as modified by the current umask,
plus write and search permission for the owner. Do not consider it an
error if the argument directory already exists.The user must have write permission in the parent directory. For an explanation of the directory hierarchy, see hier(7).
The mkdir
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Create a directory named foobar:
$ mkdir foobar
Create a directory named foobar and set its file mode to 700:
$ mkdir -m 700 foobar
Create a directory named cow/horse/monkey, creating any non-existent intermediate directories as necessary:
$ mkdir -p
cow/horse/monkey
The mkdir
utility is compliant with the
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification.
A mkdir
command appeared in
Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
September 3, 2010 | OpenBSD-current |