1.\" $NetBSD: mkdir.1,v 1.19 2016/08/10 18:42:00 sevan Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 18.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 19.\" without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 22.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 24.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 25.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 26.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 27.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 28.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 29.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 34.\" 35.Dd August 10, 2016 36.Dt MKDIR 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm mkdir 40.Nd make directories 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl p 44.Op Fl m Ar mode 45.Ar directory_name ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Nm 48creates 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.Pp 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl m 58Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 59the specified mode. 60The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 61.Xr chmod 1 62utility. 63If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 64.Dq + 65and 66.Dq - 67are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 68.Dq a=rwx . 69.It Fl p 70Create intermediate directories as required. 71If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 72operand must already exist. 73Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 74.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 75as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 76permission for the owner. 77Do not consider it an error if the argument directory already exists. 78.El 79.Pp 80The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 81.Sh EXIT STATUS 82.Nm 83exits 0 if successful, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred. 84.Sh SEE ALSO 85.Xr chmod 1 , 86.Xr rmdir 1 , 87.Xr mkdir 2 , 88.Xr umask 2 89.Sh STANDARDS 90The 91.Nm 92utility is expected to be 93.St -p1003.2 94compatible. 95.Sh HISTORY 96A 97.Nm 98utility appeared in 99.At v1 . 100