1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mkdir.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MKDIR 1 10.Os BSD 4.4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mkdir 13.Nd make directories 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm mkdir 16.Op Fl p Ar directory_name ... 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18.Nm Mkdir 19creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 20using mode 21.Li \&0777 22modified by the current 23.Xr umask 2 . 24.Pp 25The options are as follows: 26.Tw Ds 27.Tp Fl p 28Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not 29specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. 30.Tp 31.Pp 32The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 33.Pp 34.Nm Mkdir 35exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 36.Sh SEE ALSO 37.Xr rmdir 1 38.Sh STANDARDS 39Mkdir is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 40.br 41This manual page is derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. 42