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.\" 37.Dd January 25, 1994 38.Dt MKDIR 1 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm mkdir 42.Nd make directories 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Nm mkdir 45.Op Fl p 46.Op Fl m Ar mode 47.Ar directory_name ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm Mkdir 50creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 51using mode 52.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 53as modified by the current 54.Xr umask 2 . 55.Pp 56The options are as follows: 57.Pp 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl m 60Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 61the specified mode. 62The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 63.Xr chmod 1 64command. 65If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 66.Dq + 67and 68.Dq - 69are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 70.Dq a=rwx . 71.It Fl p 72Create intermediate directories as required. 73If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 74operand must already exist. 75Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 76.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 77as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 78permission for the owner. 79.El 80.Pp 81The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 82.Pp 83.Nm Mkdir 84exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr rmdir 1 87.Sh STANDARDS 88The 89.Nm mkdir 90utility is expected to be 91.St -p1003.2 92compatible. 93