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. 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.\" 34.Dd January 25, 1994 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.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 51as modified by the current 52.Xr umask 2 . 53.Pp 54The options are as follows: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl m Ar mode 57Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 58the specified mode. 59The 60.Ar mode 61argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 62.Xr chmod 1 63command. 64If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 65.Dq + 66and 67.Dq - 68are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 69.Dq a=rwx . 70.It Fl p 71Create intermediate directories as required. 72If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 73operand must already exist. 74On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 75be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 76Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 77.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 78as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 79permission for the owner. 80.It Fl v 81Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 82.El 83.Pp 84The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 85.Sh EXIT STATUS 86.Ex -std 87.Sh COMPATIBILITY 88The 89.Fl v 90option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr rmdir 1 93.Sh STANDARDS 94The 95.Nm 96utility is expected to be 97.St -p1003.2 98compatible. 99.Sh HISTORY 100A 101.Nm 102command appeared in 103.At v1 . 104