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.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd March 15, 2013 36.Dt MKDIR 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm mkdir 40.Nd make directories 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl pv 44.Op Fl m Ar mode 45.Ar directory_name ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 50using mode 51.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 52(0777) 53as modified by the current 54.Xr umask 2 . 55.Pp 56The options are as follows: 57.Bl -tag -width ".Fl m Ar mode" 58.It Fl m Ar mode 59Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 60the specified mode. 61The 62.Ar mode 63argument 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.Ql + 68and 69.Ql - 70are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 71.Dq Li 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.Dq Li rwxrwxrwx 80(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 EXIT STATUS 89.Ex -std 90.Sh EXAMPLES 91Create a directory named 92.Pa foobar : 93.Pp 94.Dl $ mkdir foobar 95.Pp 96Create a directory named 97.Pa foobar 98and set its file mode to 700: 99.Pp 100.Dl $ mkdir -m 700 foobar 101.Pp 102Create a directory named 103.Pa cow/horse/monkey , 104creating any non-existent intermediate directories as necessary: 105.Pp 106.Dl $ mkdir -p cow/horse/monkey 107.Sh COMPATIBILITY 108The 109.Fl v 110option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 111.Sh SEE ALSO 112.Xr rmdir 1 113.Sh STANDARDS 114The 115.Nm 116utility is expected to be 117.St -p1003.2 118compatible. 119.Sh HISTORY 120A 121.Nm 122command appeared in 123.At v1 . 124