1.\" $NetBSD: mkdir.1,v 1.14 2002/02/08 01:21:58 ross 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94 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 p 48.Op Fl m Ar mode 49.Ar directory_name ... 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51.Nm 52creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 53using mode 54.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 55as modified by the current 56.Xr umask 2 . 57.Pp 58The options are as follows: 59.Pp 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl m 62Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 63the specified mode. 64The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 65.Xr chmod 1 66utility. 67If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 68.Dq + 69and 70.Dq - 71are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 72.Dq a=rwx . 73.It Fl p 74Create intermediate directories as required. 75If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 76operand must already exist. 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. Do not consider it an error if the 81argument directory already exists. 82.El 83.Pp 84The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 85.Sh EXIT STATUS 86.Nm 87exits 0 if successful, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred. 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr chmod 1 , 90.Xr rmdir 1 , 91.Xr mkdir 2 , 92.Xr umask 2 93.Sh STANDARDS 94The 95.Nm 96utility is expected to be 97.St -p1003.2 98compatible. 99