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.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 33.\" 34.Dd March 15, 2013 35.Dt MKDIR 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mkdir 39.Nd make directories 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl pv 43.Op Fl m Ar mode 44.Ar directory_name ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 49using mode 50.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 51(0777) 52as modified by the current 53.Xr umask 2 . 54.Pp 55The options are as follows: 56.Bl -tag -width ".Fl m Ar mode" 57.It Fl m Ar mode 58Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 59the specified mode. 60The 61.Ar mode 62argument 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.Ql + 67and 68.Ql - 69are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 70.Dq Li 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. 75On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 76be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 77Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 78.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 79(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 EXIT STATUS 88.Ex -std 89.Sh EXAMPLES 90Create a directory named 91.Pa foobar : 92.Pp 93.Dl $ mkdir foobar 94.Pp 95Create a directory named 96.Pa foobar 97and set its file mode to 700: 98.Pp 99.Dl $ mkdir -m 700 foobar 100.Pp 101Create a directory named 102.Pa cow/horse/monkey , 103creating any non-existent intermediate directories as necessary: 104.Pp 105.Dl $ mkdir -p cow/horse/monkey 106.Sh COMPATIBILITY 107The 108.Fl v 109option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 110.Sh SEE ALSO 111.Xr rmdir 1 112.Sh STANDARDS 113The 114.Nm 115utility is expected to be 116.St -p1003.2 117compatible. 118.Sh HISTORY 119A 120.Nm 121command appeared in 122.At v1 . 123