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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 36.\" $FreeBSD: src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1,v 1.12.2.5 2002/07/14 21:42:14 keramida Exp $ 37.\" $DragonFly: src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1,v 1.4 2008/05/02 02:05:03 swildner Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd January 25, 1994 40.Dt MKDIR 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm mkdir 44.Nd make directories 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl pv 48.Op Fl m Ar mode 49.Ar directory_name ... 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53utility creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 54using mode 55.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 56as modified by the current 57.Xr umask 2 . 58.Pp 59The options are as follows: 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl m Ar mode 62Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 63the specified mode. 64The 65.Ar mode 66argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 67.Xr chmod 1 68command. 69If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 70.Dq + 71and 72.Dq - 73are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 74.Dq a=rwx . 75.It Fl p 76Create intermediate directories as required. 77If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 78operand must already exist. 79On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will 80be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists. 81Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 82.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 83as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 84permission for the owner. 85.It Fl v 86Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created. 87.El 88.Pp 89The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 90.Sh EXIT STATUS 91.Ex -std 92.Sh COMPATIBILITY 93The 94.Fl v 95option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 96.Sh SEE ALSO 97.Xr rmdir 1 98.Sh STANDARDS 99The 100.Nm 101utility is expected to be 102.St -p1003.2 103compatible. 104.Sh HISTORY 105A 106.Nm 107command appeared in 108.At v1 . 109