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 6.7 (Berkeley) 03/14/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Dd 10.Dt MKDIR 1 11.Os 12.Sh NAME 13.Nm mkdir 14.Nd make directories 15.Sh SYNOPSIS 16.Nm mkdir 17.Op Fl p Ar directory_name ... 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Nm Mkdir 20creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 21using mode 22.Li \&0777 23modified by the current 24.Xr umask 2 . 25.Pp 26The options are as follows: 27.Tw Ds 28.Tp Fl p 29Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not 30specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. 31.Tp 32.Pp 33The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 34.Pp 35.Nm Mkdir 36exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 37.Sh SEE ALSO 38.Xr rmdir 1 39.Sh STANDARDS 40Mkdir is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 41This manual page is derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. 42