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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 32.\" $FreeBSD: src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1,v 1.12.2.5 2002/07/14 21:42:14 keramida Exp $ 33.\" $DragonFly: src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1,v 1.4 2008/05/02 02:05:03 swildner Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd January 25, 1994 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.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 52as modified by the current 53.Xr umask 2 . 54.Pp 55The options are as follows: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 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.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. 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.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 79as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 80permission for the owner. 81.It Fl v 82Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 83.El 84.Pp 85The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 86.Sh EXIT STATUS 87.Ex -std 88.Sh COMPATIBILITY 89The 90.Fl v 91option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr rmdir 1 94.Sh STANDARDS 95The 96.Nm 97utility is expected to be 98.St -p1003.2 99compatible. 100.Sh HISTORY 101A 102.Nm 103command appeared in 104.At v1 . 105