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 50The 51.Nm 52utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 53using mode 54.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 55as modified by the current 56.Xr umask 2 . 57.Pp 58The options are as follows: 59.Pp 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl m 62Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 63the specified mode. 64The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 65.Xr chmod 1 66command. 67If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 68.Dq + 69and 70.Dq - 71are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 72.Dq a=rwx . 73.It Fl p 74Create intermediate directories as required. 75If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 76operand must already exist. 77On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 78be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 79Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 80.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 81as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 82permission for the owner. 83.It Fl v 84Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 85.El 86.Pp 87The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 88.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 89.Ex -std 90.Sh SEE ALSO 91.Xr rmdir 1 92.Sh COMPATIBILITY 93The 94.Fl v 95option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 96.Sh STANDARDS 97The 98.Nm 99utility is expected to be 100.St -p1003.2 101compatible. 102.Sh HISTORY 103A 104.Nm 105command appeared in 106.At v1 . 107