1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd January 25, 1994 39.Dt MKDIR 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm mkdir 43.Nd make directories 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl pv 47.Op Fl m Ar mode 48.Ar directory_name ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Nm Mkdir 51creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 52using mode 53.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 54as modified by the current 55.Xr umask 2 . 56.Pp 57The options are as follows: 58.Pp 59.Bl -tag -width indent 60.It Fl m 61Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 62the specified mode. 63The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 64.Xr chmod 1 65command. 66If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 67.Dq + 68and 69.Dq - 70are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 71.Dq a=rwx . 72.It Fl p 73Create intermediate directories as required. 74If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 75operand must already exist. 76On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 77be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 78Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 79.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 80as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 81permission for the owner. 82.It Fl v 83Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 84.El 85.Pp 86The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 87.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 88The 89.Nm 90utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr rmdir 1 93.Sh COMPATIBILITY 94The 95.Fl v 96option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 97.Sh STANDARDS 98The 99.Nm 100utility is expected to be 101.St -p1003.2 102compatible. 103.Sh HISTORY 104A 105.Nm 106command appeared in 107.At v1 . 108