1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 6.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd March 15, 2013 33.Dt MKDIR 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm mkdir 37.Nd make directories 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl pv 41.Op Fl m Ar mode 42.Ar directory_name ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 47using mode 48.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 49(0777) 50as modified by the current 51.Xr umask 2 . 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width ".Fl m Ar mode" 55.It Fl m Ar mode 56Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 57the specified mode. 58The 59.Ar mode 60argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 61.Xr chmod 1 62command. 63If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 64.Ql + 65and 66.Ql - 67are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 68.Dq Li a=rwx . 69.It Fl p 70Create intermediate directories as required. 71If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 72operand must already exist. 73On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 74be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 75Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 76.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 77(0777) 78as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 79permission for the owner. 80.It Fl v 81Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 82.El 83.Pp 84The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 85.Sh EXIT STATUS 86.Ex -std 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88Create a directory named 89.Pa foobar : 90.Pp 91.Dl $ mkdir foobar 92.Pp 93Create a directory named 94.Pa foobar 95and set its file mode to 700: 96.Pp 97.Dl $ mkdir -m 700 foobar 98.Pp 99Create a directory named 100.Pa cow/horse/monkey , 101creating any non-existent intermediate directories as necessary: 102.Pp 103.Dl $ mkdir -p cow/horse/monkey 104.Sh COMPATIBILITY 105The 106.Fl v 107option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 108.Sh SEE ALSO 109.Xr rmdir 1 110.Sh STANDARDS 111The 112.Nm 113utility is expected to be 114.St -p1003.2 115compatible. 116.Sh HISTORY 117A 118.Nm 119command appeared in 120.At v1 . 121